This, of course, was not to be, as the Cabinet collapsed in a fit of collective faintheartedness severe even by the standards we have come to expect of it. And so we are left with the Taiwan government's dispiriting ability to acquiesce in belittling the place it governs and thereby itself, by entering international organizations under names that seem to imply either that it is a local government or that it is a part of China. And it uses the same name to compete in the Olympic Games and other international sporting events. The government can retort that in past cases Taiwan had no option. It simply had to join these organizations using a less than ideal name if it was to have Taiwan's voice be heard in the councils of the powerful.
Any exposure is better than no exposure at all.
We remain only half convinced. Of course, Taiwan would be called a troublemaker. The unfairness of the current international appeasement of China at Taiwan's expense cannot be highlighted without feathers being ruffled. Here is an organization which Taiwan can join using something approaching a real name. And yet, once again, Taiwan is to accept a thoroughly misleading compromise.