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‘Blame China, praise Taiwan’ - what's behind the strange narrative of Western powers?
The West is irrationally elevating the Chinese island’s response to the outbreak above its neighbour's purely to score political points, explains KENNY COYLE
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BRITAIN’S shambolic response to the Covid-19 crisis has become an international scandal as well as a domestic disgrace. The situation in the US, despite Trump’s bluster, is no better.

The recently concluded World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) should have concentrated on global co-operation to research and fight the coronavirus.

Instead it became a shadow war over the international status of the island of Taiwan whose official name is the Republic of China (ROC), and attempts to cast the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the worst possible light.

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