Taiwan is making a fresh public push for a seat at the United Nations, framing its exclusion as a danger to global rules rather than a local dispute — a pitch aimed at Israeli and international opinion leaders.

• Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung argued in Israel's largest English-language paper that authoritarian states are chipping away at basic rules like settling disputes peacefully and not using force.
• The core complaint: China twists a 1971 UN resolution on Chinese representation into a bar on Taiwan, even though the text never mentions Taiwan or its status.
• Letting that reading stand, the argument goes, would set a legal precedent China could later use to justify attacking Taiwan.
• Taiwan pitches itself as useful rather than needy — chips, AI, disaster relief, public health, plus aid projects in Paraguay, Eswatini and Palau.
• The Taiwan Strait carries a large share of world shipping and supply chains, which is why G7, US, Japan, UK and Australia statements keep citing stability there.

Outlook: Expect more of these op-eds and allied statements ahead of the UN General Assembly session, with no realistic chance of Taiwan actually being admitted while China holds a veto.