Italy’s biggest newspaper, the Corriere della Sera, has published an article which says that Taiwan exists independently of China and should not be viewed as part of China. The paper published the article after Taiwan pledged to donate10 million surgical masks to foreign countries, setting aside 500,000 for Italy.
The article says that the WHO has excluded Taiwan because Beijing does not want international organizations to acknowledge Taiwan’s democratic system. However, it says that with global health at risk due to the COVID-19 pandemic, China should put its differences with Taiwan aside for now and make an exception.
The article also says that while Taiwan is only about 100 kilometers from China’s east coast, it has been able to keep its number of confirmed cases to only a little over 300. It says that other countries should learn from Taiwan’s success in preventing COVID-19.