India support Taiwan...

1. Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Organisation (WHO) was opposed by China.

2. Taiwan’s status had limited its ability to share information about COVID-19 and its arrangement with the WHO was not satisfactory.

Taiwan’s status

1. Taiwan is not a member of the WHO.

2. China has opposed its inclusion in the World Health Assembly (WHA), the organization’s decision-making body, citing the ‘One China principle’.

3. But, Taiwan participated in the WHA as an observer from 2009 to 2016.

India’s stand

1. India is among the 179 of the 193 member states of the UN that do not maintain any diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

2. The U.S. has been pushing for Taiwan’s inclusion in the WHA, but it requires a simple majority from member states.

3. India will have to decide on this as it takes over as chairperson of the executive board.

4. The government is yet to make a final decision on whether to support the U.S. move to include Taiwan or to accept China’s objections to it.