Editing United Nations (section)

=== Exclusion of nations ===
{{See also|United Nations list of non-self-governing territories|List of states with limited recognition}}
After [[World War II]], the [[French Committee of National Liberation]] was late to be recognized by the United States as the government of France, and so the country was initially excluded from the conferences that created the new organization. Future French president [[Charles de Gaulle]] criticized the UN, famously calling it a ''machin'' (contraption), and was not convinced that a [[global security]] alliance would help maintain world peace, preferring [[Foreign relations of France|direct defence treaties]] between countries.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gerbet |first=Pierre |year=1995 |title=Naissance des Nations Unies |trans-title=Birth of the United Nations |magazine=Espoir |issue=102 |language=fr |url=http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/pages/l-homme/dossiers-thematiques/1944-1946-la-liberation/restaurer-le-rang-de-la-france/analyses/naissance-des-nations-unies.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710122708/http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/pages/l-homme/dossiers-thematiques/1944-1946-la-liberation/restaurer-le-rang-de-la-france/analyses/naissance-des-nations-unies.php |archive-date=10 July 2009}}</ref>

Following the [[Chinese Civil War]], the government of China was disputed between the [[Kuomintang|Chinese Nationalist Party]] and the [[Chinese Communist Party]]. After the foundation of the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC) on 1 October 1949, the government of the [[Republic of China]] (ROC) retreated to the island of Taiwan,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kubek|first=Anthony |title=How the Far East was lost: American policy and the creation of Communist China|year=1963|publisher=Intercontex Publishers (England) Limited |isbn=978-0-85622-000-5}}</ref> continuing to claim that it was the sole government of China. After the civil war, the United Nations continued recognizing the ROC as the [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 505 (VI)|official government of China]]. In 1971, amid growing debate over the representation of the Chinese people on the mainland,<ref>{{cite news |last=Hale |first=Erin |date=25 October 2021 |title=Taiwan taps on United Nations' door, 50 years after departure |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/25/chinas-un-seat-50-years-on |url-status=live |work= Al Jazeera |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250502081255/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/25/chinas-un-seat-50-years-on |archive-date=2 May 2025 |access-date=30 May 2025}}</ref> the General Assembly passed [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 (XXVI)|a resolution]] recognizing the PRC as ''"the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations."''<ref>{{cite web |publisher=United Nations General Assembly (26th sess.: 1971) |title=Restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations |date=25 October 1971 |url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/192054?ln=en&v=pdf |website=United Nations Digital Library |access-date=30 May 2025}}</ref> Critics{{who|date=May 2025}} allege that this position reflects a failure of the organization's development goals and guidelines,<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 November 2021 |title=Taiwan Challenges UN Exclusion on Sidelines of COP26 Summit |language=en |work=Bloomberg.com |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-06/taiwan-challenges-un-exclusion-on-sidelines-of-cop26-summit |access-date=13 July 2022 |archive-date=21 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121130644/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-06/taiwan-challenges-un-exclusion-on-sidelines-of-cop26-summit |url-status=live}}</ref> and it garnered renewed scrutiny during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], when Taiwan was denied membership into the World Health Organization despite its [[COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan|relatively effective response to the virus]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 March 2020 |title=Why Taiwan has become a problem for WHO |language=en-GB |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52088167 |access-date=13 July 2022 |archive-date=12 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512013946/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52088167 |url-status=live}}</ref> Support for Taiwan's inclusion in the UN remains challenged by the People's Republic of China, which claims the territories controlled by Taiwan [[One China|as their own territory]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-united-nations-needs-treat-taiwan-fairly-22256 |title=The United Nations Needs to Treat Taiwan Fairly |last=Lee |first=David Tawei |website=The National Interest |language=en |access-date=14 September 2017 |date=11 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914202033/http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-united-nations-needs-treat-taiwan-fairly-22256 |archive-date=14 September 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>