Someone posted this in the comments of a
recent post I wrote. It
turns out the rally that I mentioned a while back was held
simultaneously with the huge rallies here in Taiwan:
A record number of more than 3,000 Taiwanese expatriates living in the United States attended a rally outside the U.N. headquarters in New York City Saturday to promote Taiwan's bid to join the United Nations under the name Taiwan.[Read the whole article]The rally, organized jointly by the Taiwan-based United Nations for Taiwan Alliance and the New York-based Committee for Admission of Taiwan to the United Nations, was linked via satellite to a mass rally simultaneously held in the southern Taiwan port city of Kaohsiung.
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Besides Taiwanese expatriates residing in the greater New York and New Jersey areas, many others traveled from Washington D.C., Connecticut, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Kentucky and Montreal, Canada to attend the rally.
Meanwhile, Scott Garretta, a [Republican] member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nauru's Ambassador to the United Nations Marlene Moses, Tuvalu's Ambassador to the U.N. Afelee Pita, and Ian George Williams, a former president of the U.N. Correspondents Association also turned up at the rally and voiced their support for Taiwan.
In other news, I've found some pictures from New York, ads promoting Taiwan's UN bid, pictures from the rallies, and so on:
[Credit Joe Jones]
[credit Jimmy Lin]
.....then blogger suddenly stopped working and won't let me upload photos. So, here are the links: "UN For Taiwan" written in the sky, and there's this photo set.
2 comments:
Thank you for the post.
"TW for UN", another DPP agenda that KMT attacked on every chance they get. On the surface it does look like big waste of resource. There is no way UN going to pass the bill without China veto it (that is, if it actually get vote on).
I see it as a great victory of Taiwan and DPP. Just like your prior post, president Chen pissed off quite few people in the world. China's anger, USA's "Great concern"....etc etc all translate into great PR for Taiwan. Thanks to UN, China and USA, much of ignorant people around me suddenly realize Taiwan and China is not the same!
I think more and more people are learning that Taiwan is, at the very least, only debatably a part of China and, more realistically, a sovereign nation that deserves recognition.