For over 20 years, Taiwan has been prevented from China from gaining membership of the World Health Organisation. Ian H. McDougall reports.Swine flu – be it a journalistic beat-up or potential disaster – shows the dangers for the world of a gap in its defences against a major pandemic. That gap was Taiwan, and now the gap has been filled.For over 20 years, Taiwan has been attempting to gain membership of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Now, Taiwan has succeeded in gaining observer status at…
