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1.媒體來源:The Economist

2.記者署名:
The Economist

3.完整新聞標題:
https://imgur.com/crVCCPn
Why Taiwan is not recognised on the international stage
為何台灣在國際上不被承認

Despite its success in dealing with covid-19, Taiwan will be shunned by the
World Health Assembly
儘管台灣在Covid-19防疫上很成功，仍然會被WHA拒於門外

4.完整新聞內文:
THERE IS an island 180km off the coast of China. Its democratically elected
leaders say they run a country called the Republic of China. To the Communist
government in Beijing the island is “Taiwan, China” or “Taiwan Province,
China”. International organisations, desperate not to offend either side,
struggle to name it at all—many opt for the deliberately ambiguous “Chinese
Taipei”, after its capital city. To most it is just “Taiwan”, a country
that in recent months has drawn attention for its exemplary handling of the
covid-19 pandemic.
距離中國沿岸180公里外有一個島嶼，它的民選領袖都說自己統治一個稱做Republic of
China的國家。對於北京的共產黨而言，這個島是「Taiwan, China」或「Taiwan


The country has been preparing for such a crisis since the SARS epidemic of
2003. To combat the spread of covid-19, it has screened inbound air
passengers and used national databases and big data to identify those most at
risk of infection. Thanks to such measures and many others, Taiwan has
managed to suppress covid-19 without closing all schools, restaurants and
bars. This success has attracted sympathy in the West for Taiwan’s efforts
to secure observer status at the World Health Assembly, the annual
decision-making forum of the World Health Organisation (WHO), which starts on
May 18th.

Covid-19。這次防疫成功使許多西方國家對於台灣致力想取得WHA觀察員資格產生了同情
(WHA是WHO的決策組織，將在5/18日舉行全球論壇)。

Taiwan is not a member of the WHO. Between 2009 and 2016, when a
China-friendly government held power in Taiwan, it attended assembly meetings
as an observer. But since then it has been prevented from participating, at
China’s behest. America and New Zealand have backed its bid to attend this
year, but the assembly will only extend an invitation if a majority of the WHO
’s 194 members vote in favour on May 18th. Most countries will fall in line
with China’s demand that Taiwan be ignored because they do not challenge the
view of the government in Beijing that it alone represents China, and that
China includes Taiwan. In 1971 the UN voted to recognise that government as
China’s sole representative.

大多數的國家都會支持中國的要求而忽略台灣，因為他們不想挑戰北京的一中觀點，而
且那個中國包含了台灣。
1971年聯合國表決承認中國有唯一的代表權。

Taiwan’s woes stem from the unfinished business of the civil war that
brought the Communist Party to power in China in 1949 and forced the deposed
government of the Kuomintang (KMT) to flee to the island. The KMT continued
to maintain that the Republic of China still existed, and refused to
recognise the new People’s Republic of China led by the Communists. It did
accept that Taiwan was a province of China, but not of the People’s
Republic. In the 1990s, however, democracy began to take hold in Taiwan. This
gave greater voice to politicians who saw the island as a country in its own
right, with no lingering claims to the mainland. In 2000 an opposition party,
the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), won presidential elections for the
first time. The DPP’s assertion of Taiwan’s separate identity enraged
China, which responded by extending olive branches to the KMT—hence China’s
decision to allow Taiwan to attend World Health Assembly meetings during the
years when the KMT was back in power on the island.
台灣的困境源於一場發生於1949年使共產黨取得中國政權、而將KMT趕下台逃到台灣的內
戰延續。
KMT來台後，繼續宣稱Republic of China仍然存在而拒絕承認共產黨的People’s
Republic of China，KMT接受台灣是China的一省，但不是People’s Republic的。

時台灣可以參加WHA會議。

With the DPP in control again, China is unwilling to make any such
concessions. Since 2016 it has been using carrots (large investments) and
sticks (such as restrictions on visits by Chinese tourists) to persuade Taiwan
’s few remaining diplomatic allies to switch sides. Seven countries have
done so, leaving only 15 that still recognise the Republic of China. The
holdouts include eSwatini, Nicaragua and the Vatican.
隨著DPP重返執政，China不願再做類似的讓步，自從2016年起，中國採取了軟硬兼施的
對台策略(一方面有大量投資，另一方面禁止Chinese旅客來台）說服了台灣僅存的少數邦
交國跳槽。目前已有7個國家跳槽，僅剩15個國家承認Republic of China。不願妥中國的國家包含了史瓦帝尼(eSwatini)，尼加拉瓜(Nicaragua)與梵蒂岡(Vatican)。

In January 2020 Tsai Ing-wen of the DPP won another four-year term as
president, making a cross-strait thaw highly unlikely for the foreseeable
future. Ms Tsai is widely viewed in Taiwan as relatively cautious in her
handling of relations with China. But the government in Beijing remains
suspicious of her party’s pro-independence leanings. Adding to tensions is
the pro-Taiwan stance of senior officials in the administration of America’s
president, Donald Trump and the billions of dollars of arms sales to the
island that Mr Trump has approved.
2020年1月，DPP的蔡英文勝選連任下一屆四年總統，使得在可見的未來內兩岸關係解凍的
機率極低。蔡英文處理與中國關係的手腕在台灣被視為相對謹慎，但對於北京政權仍然
懷疑蔡英文政黨的支持獨立路線。使雙方關係更緊張的是美國總統川普政府內支持台灣的
高階官員，川普已經批准了數十億的對台軍售。

So China is trying to step up pressure on other countries to freeze out
Taiwan. The WHO’s unwillingness even to talk about Taiwan’s successes in
fighting the pandemic is evidence that this is working.
因此中國試圖對其它國家施壓來凍結台灣，WHO甚至不願談台灣是如何防疫成功，就證明
中國的策略是有效的。


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