Taiwan separatists doomed to fail

Taiwan separatists doomed to fail

Hua Hua, China Daily, Asia News Network, Beijing

Separatists in Taiwan were dealt a heavy blow when their
latest attempt to create "two Chinas" or "one China, one Taiwan"
in the international community ended in failure.

On Monday the 55th Assembly of the World Health Organization
(WHO) turned down a proposal to invite Taiwan to participate in
its activities as an observer.

This is the sixth time since 1997 that the WHO has rejected
such a proposal put forward by a few countries.

Surely it is time that the separatists learn from their
repeated failure? The overwhelming majority of votes against such
a proposal is a clear and strong signal that the international
community recognizes there is only one China, and that Taiwan is
a part of China.

Any such attempts to separate Taiwan from the motherland will
be doomed to fail.

Die-hard separatists, however, have never given up even after
failure and continue to resort to all possible approaches to
persuade a few countries to make a noise at the WHO assembly.

Such a proposal poses a virtual challenge to the sovereignty
and to the territorial integrity of a member state. It violates
the basic principles of the United Nations (UN) Charter, and
constitutes an abuse of the right to raise proposals granted to
WHO member states.

Such a political showcase staged by the separatist forces in
Taiwan, however, has been brushed aside and denounced by the
majority of members of the UN.

It seems that separatists on the island did learn some lessons
after their previous attempts were foiled. This time they tried
to cloak their real purpose with the trick of entering the WHO as
a so-called "health entity."

The WHO, however, is a UN organization which consists of
sovereign states only. It is by no means an institution made up
of so-called entities. And there has never been such a thing as a
"health entity" in the 50 years of the WHO's existence.

Taiwan has no qualifications to join it.

Those few separatists on the island could not be so ignorant
as to be unaware of what is common knowledge. So one does not
have to look too far to see exactly what the Taiwan separatists
are plotting.

The purpose for their constant attempts to push Taiwan into
the WHO and politicalize health-related issues is nothing more
than separating Taiwan from the motherland.

Such a malicious purpose is against the will of compatriots
across the Taiwan Straits, and has met with strong protests from
Chinese people across the world.