Oh good, another right wing nationalist nut-job. Just what the world needs right now!
Regardless of politics, there must be some common sense and practicality in play. That common sense is ...... You don't pissed off your biggest trading partner, and he did it in no small way. Those of you here of the chinese descent will know what I mean. Taiwan is very very. (Just in case any one missed it the first time) dear to ALL chinese hearts. (I won't go into details here).
So by pissing off your trading partner, you know the one you have a massive current account surplus with, the one that kept your economy afloat, the one that help your economy avoids a recession during the last financial crash that affected the world! Is not a smart move.
The prime minister realises that, and the damage limitation was full on when she had to publicly restate that New Zealand adherered to the one China policy. That's a big kowtow!
It is all about mutual respect and benefits. Till now the OZ and NZ media and politicians are spinning it like China is the bully for coercing them into not supporting Tw admin entry to WHO(as if it is the RIGHT thing to do in the first place). Do you think China feels good having to retort to economic threats ? No ! But please have some awareness on you part and do not keep trampling on Chinese sovereignty integrity whilst sitting on the moral high ground claiming to be some saint that is holding up a free and equal world yet behaving in the totally opposite manner. China won't slap back at you if you don't poke at her. Or is the Five simply too used to having the position of dictating others' domestic policies that they now became uneasy/felt restrained upon steadily losing the might to impose their will.
Mind you, tw experts are actually invited to the meeting, it does no difference if they have an official political representative or not.
TW island also communicates with WHO through Mainland China. All this push to get TW into WHO under the pretext of outbreak efforts are merely washhog by US to grant TW some artificial political standing, which hopefully will cause the island to break away from China in the long run. Chinese don't like to play these superficial game(巴戏), they see right through the nonsense and address the intent behind. Perhaps this is also why the West is wary of Chinese all these decades, they knew this group cant bve fooled like the Africans and be subjugated easily.
The chinese has such an idiom :
以其人之道,还治其人之身
give somebody a dose of his own medicine, do unto him as he does unto you, deal with a man as he deals with you