US backs Taiwan’s effort to rejoin United Nations while China pushes back

IT’S BEEN 50 YEARS SINCE TAIWAN WAS A PART OF THE UNITED NATIONS. 

AND THE COUNTRY’S WANTED BACK IN.

THIS WEEK, THE US SAID “YEAH, WE WANT THAT, TOO.”

IT HAPPENED ON TUESDAY WHEN 

US SECRETARY OF STATE ANTONY BLINKEN SAID UN MEMBER STATES SHOULD SUPPORT TAIWAN’S PARTICIPATION IN THE UN SYSTEM.

BUT, UNSURPRISINGLY, CHINA RESPONDED, REITERATING THAT TAIWAN HAS NO RIGHT TO REJOIN.

THEY WERE VOTED OUT AND REPLACED BY PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA LEADERS IN 1971.

NOW, IT’S COMPLICATED, SO I BREAK DOWN HOW CHINA AND TAIWAN ARE TIED TOGETHER IN MY UPCOMING EXPLAINER. I ALSO DIG INTO HOW THE US FITS INTO IT ALL. SO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR IT.