UN Aviation Agency Rejects Taiwan: Here's Why It Matters

1. 2016-11-29 at 4:07 PM UTC

   #1
   littleasianlady Houston

   Taiwan isn’t a member of the body, better known as ICAO, because it left the United Nations in 1971. Taiwan’s giant, globally influential political rival, China, won’t let Taiwan back in.

   http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2016/09/28/un-aviation-agency-rejects-taiwan-3-losses/#4b85ec317bfc
   
   

   The creators of the United Nations Charter conceived that five countries — China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) [which was succeeded in 1990 by the Russian Federation], the United Kingdom and the United States —, because of their key roles in the establishment of the United Nations, would continue to play important roles in the maintenance of international peace and security. They were granted the special status of Permanent Member States at the Security Council, along with a special voting power known as the "right to veto". It was agreed by the drafters that if any one of the five permanent members cast a negative vote in the 15-member Security Council, the resolution or decision would not be approved.

   
   http://www.un.org/en/sc/meetings/voting.shtml
   
   
2. 2016-12-31 at 3:13 AM UTC

   #2
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   China and Taiwan are the same country.
3. 2016-12-31 at 5:51 AM UTC

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   Lanny Bird of Courage
   China bullies a UN committee into denying the sovereign status of a subjugated state, what's new? Russia does this, we do this, such is life for small geographically significant nations.
4. 2016-12-31 at 7:56 AM UTC

   #4
   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   Where is the news?