In September, lawmakers in both Australia and the Netherlands motioned to oppose Taiwan’s exclusion from the United Nations based on U.N. Resolution 2758. China has been using the Resolution to say they have the right to represent Taiwan internationally.

On this episode of Zoom In Zoom Out, TaiwanPlus reporter Herel Hughes sits down with Maggie Lewis, a law professor at Seton Hall University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a U.S. think tank. We first zoom in on the actual text in U.N. Resolution 2758, then zoom out to understand why Beijing’s growing global influence is a potential cause for concern.