The United States should organize a diplomatic campaign among partner nations to push back against China’s increasingly forceful efforts to shut Taiwan out of United Nations agencies and other international organizations, according to a new report.
The report from the German Marshall Fund of the United States recommends that U.S. officials go on the offensive against China’s pervasive presence across top ranks of the United Nations and its “growing coercive and corrupting influence as well as its efforts to promote and legitimize its agenda across the U.N. system.” Among other things, the United States should carry out “a sustained effort to lobby against the appointments and elections” of Chinese officials in high positions in U.N. agencies, the authors wrote The New York Times saw a final draft of the report before its scheduled release on Thursday.
The assessment comes as concerns that the Chinese Communist Party might take measures against Taiwan and its 23 million people have grown in Washington and Taipei because of the invasion of Ukraine by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
p.s. The above passage is an excerpt from a news article written by Edward W. and Amy Q. (2022, March 24), China’s Push to Isolate Taiwan Demands U.S. Action, Report Says, New York Times.