Editing Political status of Taiwan (section)

==== International organizations ====
Under continuing pressure from the PRC to bar any representation of the ROC that may imply statehood, international organizations have adopted different policies toward the issue of ROC's participation. In cases where almost all UN members or sovereign states participate, such as the [[World Health Organization]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Klapper |first=Bradley |date=23 May 2006 |title=Taiwan fails in 10th bid for WHO observer status |url=http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=38428 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060630173746/http://www.chinapost.com.tw/i_latestdetail.asp?id=38428 |archive-date=30 June 2006 |access-date=11 June 2006 |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> the ROC has been shut out. In others, it participates under other names, including [[Chinese Taipei]] (in the [[International Olympic Committee]] or [[APEC]]) and the "Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kimmen and Matsu" (in the [[World Trade Organization]], and often also shortened as "Chinese Taipei"). After nine years of negotiations, members of the WTO completed the conditions on which to allow Taiwan admittance into the multilateral trade organization. At the end of 2011, Jeffery Bader, Assistant United States Trade Representative for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, led and finalized the final stages of Taiwan's accession to the WTO, which were approved by trade ministers in November in Doha, Qatar. The [[ISO 3166]] directory of names of countries and territories registers Taiwan (TW) separately from and in addition to the People's Republic of China (CN), but lists Taiwan as "Taiwan, Province of China" based on the name used by the UN under PRC pressure. In [[ISO 3166-2:CN]], Taiwan is also coded CN-71 under China, thus making Taiwan part of China in [[ISO 3166-1]] and [[ISO 3166-2]] categories.

Naming issues surrounding Taiwan/ROC continue to be a contentious issue in non-governmental organizations such as the [[Lions Club]], which faced considerable controversy naming its Taiwanese branch.<ref>{{cite news |last=Yeh |first=Lindy |date=12 July 2002 |title=Taiwan's Lions Club gets another temporary name |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2002/07/12/147941 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060823223211/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2002/07/12/147941 |archive-date=23 August 2006 |access-date=11 June 2006 |newspaper=[[Taipei Times]] |page=3}}</ref>