US wants to help Taiwan participate ‘meaningfully’ in UN, as China prepares to mark key anniversary
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US and Taiwanese officials hold talks ahead of 50th anniversary of PRC replacing Taiwan as China's representative in the UN
Taiwanese and US officials have discussed how Taiwan can meaningfully" participate at the United Nations just days before Chinese president Xi Jinping will give a speech to mark his country's half century since accession to the global body.
Taiwan, using its formal name the Republic of China, held the Chinese seat at the UN until 25 October 1971, when it was voted out as representative of the country in favour of the People's Republic of China, whose communist forces had won a civil war in 1949 and forced the republican government to flee to the island.
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