Parliaments around the world are overturning Beijing's interpretation of UN Resolution 2758 — good news for Taiwan, and bad news for Beijing's diplomatic pressure campaign.

• Luke de Pulford, executive director of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), says countries should stop viewing Taiwan through a 50-year-old framework about "who represents China."

• Parliaments in 11 to 12 countries have now taken a position on Resolution 2758, opposing Beijing's use of it to block Taiwan's participation in international organisations.

• The effect is visible: the share of occasions on which China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs addresses Resolution 2758 directly in Beijing has fallen from over 70 percent to 30 percent, and its tone has become more defensive.

• Beijing is playing other cards instead, directly pressing small countries under economic strain to declare support for the One China principle. In Uganda, Taiwanese nationals have already been told their passports are not recognised, and Pacific island states are also under pressure.

• Taiwan holds leverage of its own — critical products and stability in the Taiwan Strait both bear on other countries' economic interests, and can be used to demand diplomatic treatment that better reflects reality.

Outlook: Pushing back on Resolution 2758 is only the first step. The next contest will turn on whether countries are willing to raise the level of their engagement with Taiwan and their diplomatic posture towards it.