Taiwan’s representative in Australia, Douglas Hsu, talks with a Grumpy Strategist about the 2025 World Health Assembly, now as a time to reinforce multilateral & international organisations, and paths to reverse Beijing’s attempts to isolate & intimidate Taiwan. They do something unusual: look at the texts of what the UN actually says about recognition of the People’s Republic of China (UNGA 2758 says nothing about Taiwan) and how, contradicting Beijing’s repeated narrative, when Australia recognised the PRC in 1972, it did not sign up to Beijing’s ‘One China’ formula. Words – and memory – matter, it turns out.