It's not strategic, more legal, as TW is a province of One China represented by PRC under UN and by association WHO charter. No amount of US * and western wank

It's not strategic, more legal, as TW is a province of One China represented by PRC under UN and by association WHO charter. No amount of US * and western wanking and plotting to get TW into WHO (not as sovereign but even observer status) will work without PRC agreeing. And PRC will only agree if TW is cooperative on cross strait dynamic, i.e. last time TW was "allowed" to as "observe" at WHO with PRC ascent is when PRC-TW relations were good because TW affirmed the 92 consensus. When Tsai didn't uphold consensus, that "subnational" privilege was revoked by the PRC who has the procedural right to just lol no at the UN, without even wasting the security council veto, but that's always a trump card. * US because the campaign to get TW included in UN bodies like WHO or ICAO first started floating in US think tanks a couple years ago when covid gave platform to China hawks, Senators like Cruz made it domestic US politics issue by introducing bills to get Biden to be tough on China by enhancing TW’s international participation, who then tried to coordinate via G7/western support. Queue the last couple years of US think tanks and politicians conjuring all sorts of propaganda and "this one neat" trick to get TW included as WHO observer when the only party that can do so is PRC. TBH the goal was never to get TW in UN orgs - it’s procedurally simply not going to happen. It’s mostly a performance for domestic and western multilateral tough on PRC politics like articles trying to kick Russia off security council. Only the most useful idiot thinks that's remotely possible.