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Article: China may ask UN to vote on Taiwan: report
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- August 12, 2007
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Taipei, Aug. 12 -- China plans to ask UN members to vote on whether Taiwan is part of China to block the breakaway island from seeking to join the world body, a newspaper said Sunday.
The United Daily News quoted The Nelson Report, a daily newsletter on policy issues in Washington, as saying that the US was shocked when Taiwan recently applied to join the UN, a bid that was rejected by the world body after interpreting Resolution 2758 as a ruling that the island is part of the People's Republic of China.
Washington is worried that China may ask UN members to cast a vote on whether Taiwan is part of China. That would put the US in an awkward position, because Washington will be asked to ...