“I would like to publicly call upon the World Health Organization to recognize the simple fact that Taiwan is Taiwan and it is not part of the People's Republic of China.”

—  Joseph Wu

Source: Joseph Wu (2020) cited in " Virus Fears: Joseph Wu slams WHO for treating Taiwan as PRC http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2020/02/03/2003730275" on Taipei Times, 3 February 2020.

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