Grant Taiwan observer status at the WHO.

(From South China Morning Post)

The Sars crisis has put the spotlight on Taiwan's effort to gain observer status at this week's meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the administrative body of the World Health Organisation. Sars has not changed the fact that this question is complicated and strewn with political landmines. But it underscores that the time has come to grant Taiwan's application. Under WHA rules, non-state applicants may be granted observer status, although only "states" are eligible for full membership. The government in Taipei has pressed its case for several years. However, China is determined to obstruct all Taiwan's efforts to expand its "international space" until …