Taiwan& #39;s "Chinese Wild Bird Federation" forced out of UK-HQed conservation org BirdLife International bc...yup https://www.bird.org.tw/news/585 ">https://www.bird.org.tw/news/585&...
if you do a search for "Taiwan" on the BirdLife website and try to access the bio page for the "Chinese Taiwan" page, well you can& #39;t
a 2013 TW article says that China wasn& #39;t even a member of @BirdLife_News - indeed a search for China on its website brings up only the Hong Kong (China) mission - but China only sought to push TW out of any participation in intl institutions https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/local/paper/695209">https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/loca...
as per @TaiwanBirding, no matter how "non-governmental" something is - in this case a literal NGO - it will get politicised as a One China issue. https://twitter.com/TaiwanBirding/status/1305725780744310786">https://twitter.com/TaiwanBir...
seriously another day another china streisand effect https://twitter.com/catielila/status/1305734930521972736">https://twitter.com/catielila...
also very fitting that i learned about this incident first thru @niaocollective
a reminder that now that @cwbf1988 has left @BirdLife_News, the Chinese representative is the HK Birdwatching Society and not a mainland Chinese NGO. https://twitter.com/TaiwanBirding/status/1305808423020232705">https://twitter.com/TaiwanBir...
. @BirdLife_News still hasn& #39;t responded to my request for comment https://twitter.com/TaiwanBirding/status/1306485734879027200">https://twitter.com/TaiwanBir...
as per Reuters, @birdlife_news told employees not to comment on the expulsion of Taiwan group in an internal email, and its CEO called @cwbf1988& #39;s response a “sadly public statement” https://twitter.com/TaiwanBirding/status/1306802595160186885">https://twitter.com/TaiwanBir...
(it reminds me of comments from some public health experts and health writers who were admonishing Taiwan during the WHO/China saga suggesting that TW was being petulant and needlessly political)
the birding world is aflutter https://twitter.com/urbanbirder/status/1306820111886626816">https://twitter.com/urbanbird...
free of political shackles, the China Wild Bird Federation has been renamed Taiwan Wild Bird Federation, releases further details of @BirdLife_News& #39;s expulsion of the group. CEO accused @twbf1988 of being "unwilling to leave global politics at the door" https://www.bird.org.tw/news/602 ">https://www.bird.org.tw/news/602&...
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