J. Michael Cole is a Taipei-based senior fellow with the Global Taiwan Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa, Canada.
The island's exclusion is a policy for a world that no longer exists

The virtual 73rd World Health Assembly held in Geneva in May 2020: growing numbers of influential countries seek Taiwan's seat at the table. © WHO/Reuters
J. Michael Cole is a Taipei-based senior fellow with the Global Taiwan Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa, Canada.