Do you think Taiwan should be allowed membership to the United Nations? Explain your answer please. Thanks!?

Question

For quite a period of time now, the Taiwanese government has been continuously applying for a membership in the United Nations. However, their request were rejected. Taiwan is not a country, it does not have sovereignty, and therefore, it did not meet one of the basic requirements of admission to United Nations. So, what do you think? Should United Nations allow Taiwanese entry or not?

Answer 1

Taiwan cannot be a member of the UN because of the one China policy. Taiwan is only considered as a province of China and it is not a country which is one of the qualifications of being a member of the UN.

Answer 2

The reason that the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan is not able to get admitted to the vast majority of international organizations as an independent sovereign nation can be summed up nicely by saying "no territory."

In other words, the ROC on Taiwan does not hold "legal title" to the areas of Formosa and the Pescadores.

The claim that the ROC had sovereignty over the areas of Formosa and the Pescadores up to 1949 is clearly false. There had been no transfer of territorial sovereignty of these areas to the ROC at any time prior to this date. In fact, in the year of 1949 the post-WWII peace treaty had not yet come into effect!!

Background: The acceptance of the surrender of Japanese forces was done according to the directions of US General MacArthur. In General Order No. 1 of Sept. 2, 1945. General MacArthur directed a Chinese ally -- Chiang Kai-shek, of the Republic of China -- to go to Taiwan and accept the surrender of the Japanese troops stationed there. In legal terms, MacArthur's order created an agency arrangement for the military occupation of Taiwan: The United States being the principal occupying power, with Chiang Kai-shek's ROC troops fulfilling the role of a subordinate occupying power.

Then in late 1949 a large number of high-ranking officials of the ROC fled to occupied Taiwan from the mainland, thus becoming a government in exile.

In the post war San Francisco Peace Treaty of April 28, 1952, Japan renounced the sovereignty of Taiwan without specifying a receiving country. The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty of August 5, 1952, confirmed these arrangements.

In other words, from 1945 to the present, there are no international treaties or other legal documents which can show that the territorial sovereignty of Taiwan has ever been transferred to the ROC. Without any such proof of transfer, the ROC on Taiwan merely remains as (1) a subordinate occupying power, and (2) a government in exile.

There has been no change in this status to date. Hence, the ROC on Taiwan has "no territory." With "no territory" the ROC on Taiwan cannot be considered an independent sovereign nation.

Conclusion: Now today, many people use the term "Taiwan" as a convenient name for the "Republic of China on Taiwan" ..... however the legal logic is still the same. Taiwan cannot be considered an independent sovereign nation.

(The issue of what country is actually holding the territorial title to Taiwan is a separate matter. However, it is certainly not the PRC.)

Answer 3

The UN charter, Chapter 2, Article2, item 2:

The admission of any such state to membership in the United Nations will be effected by a decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.

Taiwan is still part of China. Since China is a permanent member of the Security council it can veto the reccomendation for Taiwan to be admitted to the UN. China is not willing for Taiwan to declare independence given Taiwan's close (military) relationship with US. And given it's location Taiwan could be seen as the Cuba of China...

Answer 4

NO...we should not allow anymore entry of countries into the United Nations...

Instead, we should shut down the United Nations entirely as it serves no use whatsoever and is nothing but a figurehead of wasted money beguiled by the fantasies that they believe they serve a purpose...they haven't...!

What we do need is a world organization that every country on earth "must" belong to and the cost of belonging will be pro-ratus to population, not to economic wealth...

What we need is a world organization that makes the decisions of wars and not an individual country...

What we need is a United World Police Force compiled of all countries, not simply a United Nations police force serving the so-called best interests of the more developed countries of the world...

What we need is a world organization that makes the decision of humane acts and not have one country impose their religious beliefs upon another country..

Sobeit...!

Perhaps Taiwan should seek sovereignty first...???

Answer 5

No.Because Taiwan is not a sovereignty country.

Taiwan's official name is Republic of China,which used to be the representive of China before 1971.It has the veto in the security council.

But things changed in 1971.Rupublic of China was kicked out of the UN,then People's Republic of China(Red China)took the seat back.During that time,USA suggested that ROC could join the UN under the name of Republic of China,but Chiang Ke-shrek--the president of Taiwan--rejected this idea because China can not be divided into two countries like Korea and former Germany..

Therefore,Taiwan is still a part of China and its sovereignty belongs to China(aka People's Republic of China),which is the only legal goverment representing China.

Answer 6

I don't think Taiwan can be allowed to UN before Taiwan can resolve its conflict with China. My observation is that people at Taiwan would like to be independent from China to be a separate country, but still want to be beneficial from China's economy growth. I don't think Taiwan should be allowed entering UN at present. However, China should not force Taiwan to be unified with them though. If people from Taiwan want to be separated from China, that's their will. The price to pay for that wish can be huge and they need to brave enough to take it.

Answer 7

That is because Taiwan is not recognized as a seperate nation from China by many countries.

Many countries do not want to upset China in anyway.

Taiwan by definition is not a country, it is an autonomous state.

Answer 8

Taiwan is still in a civil war that nobody know how to end
The bad news is that Chinese only know how to fight each others in their many century of culture regarding statehood
so United Nation shd issue a suggestion to them before what will happen will happen

Answer 9

Yes, it should, but only as a Taiwan, not Republic of China. That name is already taken by Taiwan's BIG neighbor.

Answer 10

We might as well. Why not invite another country to throw their membership dues down a rathole? The US does it by the billions every year.