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A senior US official pushed back over China’s growing clout in the United Nations, arguing that Beijing is crowding out Taiwan to the detriment of the international community.
Washington, Oct. 21 (CNA) Beijing has inaccurately interpreted a United Nations resolution adopted in 1971 to exclude Taiwan from playing a role in the international organization and its affiliates, an official with the United States Department of State said Thursday.
Beijing has inaccurately interpreted a UN resolution adopted in 1971 to exclude Taiwan from the international organization and its affiliates, a US Department of State official said on Thursday. “The People’s Republic of China [PRC] has misused Resolution 2758 to prevent Taiwan’s meaningful participation,” said Rick Waters, deputy assistant secretary of state in the department’s Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, during a virtual talk hosted by the Washington-based German Marshall Fund. Waters said that Taiwan’s exclusion from UN activities “creates an immense cost” to th...
BEVERLY — Holding their first event in 16 months, the Muskingum Valley Beverly-Waterford Chamber of Commerce honored the 2021 Public Service Award Recipient