Taiwanese now blocked from all UNESCO events

A PhD student at Stanford was informed that new UN rule prohibits him from attending e International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

China is getting really ridiculous.

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What exactly does Taiwan expect? UN rules are made by member countries and Taiwan is not one. Wonder when they’ll let go of their obsession with ROC and just change the name to republic of Taiwan or something like that. Atleast the part of the problematic 1-China will be over.

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The UN is clearly pasy its expiry date and needs a new thing to refresh the freedom. This is just openly saying fuck you to human rights and freedom. Something they are no longer openly supporting unfortunately. All they do now is give credibility to people like alex jones. Well done. The crazies are actually right :frowning:

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Not sure the crazies are right as such. But they do seem to have a valid point somewhere in the craziness. There is, in fact, this:

But I think these guys need to start taking themselves a lot more seriously. The UN is simply not fulfilling its mandate. The UNPO - or an outfit like them - really needs to pick up the baton and reform the whole thing from scratch. If they can’t do that, they might as well disband. There’s no point just hanging around on the sidelines, politely asking the big boys if one can join the club.

Why doesn’t TAiwan simply just not give two f*cks about anything UN related. We DON’T need them.

We need protection. Relying on the USA , Palau and Guatemala isnt a solid long term sollution. Its about being recognized, not about us “needing” them. Which in many ways are actually the same thing. and we need to be recognized, and respected, by many other international organisations. The issue is broadly that international rule can be, cheaply, bought off and all the rules they pretend they stand by are not in fact stood by. This is a big deal actually, and the taiwan china issue shoves equality and hypocrisy right in the faces of every nation pretending to care about such.

This is yet another inconvenient truth. And the west doesnt look good after a century of blowing their horns in the name of “whatever” when they turn their backs on exactly what they have advertised to support and take it in the ass from the people they always said were the enemy. Be it financially, morally, environmentally or etc. No one can blame the younger generations for being lazy and unmotivated, as there is literally almost no nation pushing for progress and something worth fighting for. Quite sad to be honest, and it wasnt due to cell phones…

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We do and we don’t. We don’t need the UN but we’re not trying to get in because they are some holistic organisation that does all good, but we do this because we need to continuously entrench Taiwanese sovereignty.

A place that doesn’t give any fucks to the UN is Hong Kong. Our job here is to be contrarian to everything China does when it comes to the sovereignty of Taiwan. Oppose China on all fronts.

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Something like this could have value to professionals though. It’s a tangible loss.