Taiwan's Participation in the World Health Organization: The U.S. “Facilitator” Role

Chang, Jaw-ling Joanne

doi:10.1080/10803920.2010.487381

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“…Underlying these cooperative acts is the concerted effort in donating only towards allies and 'like-minded countries' (western nations, diplomatic allies, and Southeast/South Asian countries). Undisputedly, due to various historical, social, and political reasons, the most important bilateral relationship Taiwan invests into is that with the United States (Chang, 2010). This much deeper relationship is reflected in the more pluralised and greater amounts of engagement between the two states.…”

Section: Traditional Health Diplomacymentioning

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WHO, COVID-19, and Taiwan as the Ghost Island

Yin

2021

Global Public Health

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The Taiwan issue continually haunts WHO. However, before addressing Taiwan's inclusion into WHO, we first describe how the era in which WHO was founded, and WHO's resulting constitutional mandate, have focused the Organisation's work on infectious disease eradication. Narrowing in on pandemic managementone aspect of infectious disease eradicationwe describe what WHO can offer. These two sections allude to what Taiwan is excluded from. Using Taiwan's COVID-19 experience as a case study, Taiwan's successful management suggests that it is excluded from little, and thus marginally benefits in terms of public health. Yet, there are beneficial political gains in its call for inclusion. Taiwan's recent leveraging and amplification of its COVID-19 success story is thus an extension of its health diplomacy. Extending the call for inclusion online captures a novel digitised health diplomacy effort from Taiwan. The present study computationally analyses pressrelease and Twitter data to understand how Taiwanese government engages in these channels to frame and respond to the Taiwan/WHO issue. We find that Taiwan brands and propagates a 'Taiwan Model' through hashtags that revolve around coordination and solidarity as opposed to exclusion, indirectly criticising WHO. The piece concludes by discussing the foundational weaknesses in WHO's pandemic management effort in contrast to Taiwan's successful effort despite exclusion. Although Taiwan's inclusion to WHO is improbable due to larger geopolitical factors, inclusion is not a zero-sum game, with potential bi-directional benefits and lessons that can fortify domestic health capacities in preparation for the next pandemic.

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Section: Traditional Health Diplomacymentioning

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WHO, COVID-19, and Taiwan as the Ghost Island

Yin

2021

Global Public Health

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“…An active tobacco control movement by the Taiwan Medical Alliance for the Control of Tobacco, John Tung Foundation and other civil society organisations, emerged during the 2000s, inspired in large part by the negotiation of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. While Taiwan is not a WHO member state – due to continued obstruction from China (for a discussion see Chang, 2010 ) – it signed and ratified the agreement in 2005. This led the government to adopt stronger measures including an amended Tobacco Hazard Prevention Act, which came into effect in 2009.…”

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The Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation: To ‘join the ranks of global companies’

Eckhardt

Fang

Lee

2017

Global Public Health

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Until the late 1990s, the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation (TTL) focused almost exclusively on serving the domestic market as a highly protected monopoly. This paper describes how the company has adopted a more outward looking strategy since 2000, with ambitions to become a regional, and eventually global, business by 2021. Drawing on company documents and industry sources, the paper argues that this shift in strategy was a direct reaction to the decline in domestic market share following liberalisation of the Taiwanese tobacco market and adoption of tougher domestic tobacco control measures. Market opening occurred as a result of pressure from the U.S. Trade Representative in the 1980s, as well as World Trade Organization membership in 2002. It is argued that TTL’s efforts to globalise operations have been limited by bureaucratic company management and structures, and ongoing political tension between Taiwan and China. However, the relative success of TTL’s alcohol branch, and potential détente as the Taiwanese government reaches out to improve relations with China, may provide TTL with new opportunities to achieve its goal of becoming a regional player with global ambitions. This article is part of the special issue ‘The Emergence of Asian Tobacco Companies: Implications for Global Health Governance.’

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“…Генри Рива, специализирующихся на стихийных бедствиях и эпидемиях. Также есть работы по медицинской дипломатии США (Marrogi, al-Dulaimi 2014), КНР (Youde 2010;Killeen et al 2018), Тайваня (Chang 2010;Herington, Lee 2014), Сингапура (Koh 2016) и др.…”

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Transformations of Medical and Vaccine Diplomacies in the COVID-19 Era

Arsentyeva

2022

Vestnik MGIMO-universiteta

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The pandemic has produced the global COVID-19 vaccine market with various stakeholders acting in their economic self-interest. At the same time, some governments use vaccines for pursuing national interests and expanding their international influence. Using scientific works on the topic and documents from WHO, GAVI, WTO, IMF, government documents and think tank reports, the author analyzes vaccine diplomacy as a branch of medical diplomacy and identifies changes that occur under pandemic impact. The article examines the current policy of China, as it has achieved the most notable success in medical services export, primarily to developing countries, and Chinese pharmaceutical companies play a prominent role in the global vaccine market. It raises serious concerns of the West, which accuses Beijing of using coronacrisis to establish a new (China-centric) world order. It is concluded that government capacity to protect public health and control epidemic spread is among the significant criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of State policy, and its own vaccine industry begins to be regarded as an important element of national security. There is also a considerable increase in the role of healthcare in foreign policy of a number of States using medical and vaccine diplomacies as a means of achieving political goals. COVID-19 vaccines are becoming a strategic asset that affects the country’s position on the world stage and generates a new field of geopolitical rivalry. But at the same time, vaccine diplomacy could serve as a dialogue platform in cases when interstate relations are in a deep crisis. And it may lead to awareness of the need to train specialists in the field of medical diplomacy.

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Taiwan's Participation in the World Health Organization: The U.S. “Facilitator” Role

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WHO, COVID-19, and Taiwan as the Ghost Island

WHO, COVID-19, and Taiwan as the Ghost Island

The Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation: To ‘join the ranks of global companies’

Transformations of Medical and Vaccine Diplomacies in the COVID-19 Era

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