The UN has not discussed yet how and when the people of Taiwan will be represented. China did - helped along by the US State Department's bungling. Mr. Lee was invited to his alma mater Cornell after a 97-1 favorable vote in the US Senate. China is the problem, because it stubbornly refuses to accept Taiwan as a friendly neighbor. The Washington Post article evoked a series of letters to the editor from leading figures in the Taiwanese-Amerivcan community.
China is the problem.
Except for the brief period of 1887 to 1895, Taiwan has never been a part of China. It has always been ruled by European powers such as the Dutch, the Spanish and the Portuguese. And until the end of World War II, the island was a Japanese colony. Beijing should understand that the civil war is over. If Beijing would acknowledge the reality that Taiwan is a de facto independent country, the two countries could live next to each other as friendly neighbors, and both would benefit from this peaceful relationship and prosper.