human rightsit said barring taiwan from setting foot on un grounds is an affront not just to the proud tawanese people but to un principlesa spokesperson for chinas un mission expressed strong indignation and firm opposition calling the us mission tweet a serious violation of the general assembly resolution that gave china the un seat three uschina joint communiques and chinas sovereignty and territorial integritycraft said the 24 million people in taiwan need to be heard and theyre being marginalised by beijing it really is a shame because they should be able to participate in un affairs just like everyone else she saidif the us doesnt stand up to china then whos going to when it comes to taiwan and not only taiwan but hong kong and others craft said she and lee discussed different ways that we can best help taiwan become more engaged within the unshe echoed president donald trump in pointing to an email alert sent by taiwan in december that the who ignored warning about persontoperson transmission of the new virus in china which indicated that the infection was highly contagiousobviously we really are pushing for them to be back into the un or have a role in the un health assembly craft said especially in light of taiwans recognition of the danger of human to human transmission of the coronaviruslee called craft a terrific diplomat and told ap that he is here to engage and being new in town he appreciates meeting people and making friendstaiwan and the us share the values of democracy human rights and the rule of law he said we could make great partners craft said the next step is just being supportiveand just making sure that he knows that the us appreciates all of their contributionsthey have so much to offer the world and are most unselfish about sharing best practices she said they care about the relationship of the chinese people with the taiwanese they care which to me spoke volumescraft stressed that us and taiwan share the goal of promoting democracy and she said she looks forward one day to meeting taiwanese president tsai ingwen