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of 194 UN member states
The United Nations has 193 member states, not 194.
Full reasoning
This parenthetical count is off by one. The UN’s own membership pages state that the organization currently has 193 Member States, with South Sudan admitted as the 193rd member on July 14, 2011. So describing the UN as having 194 member states is factually incorrect.
2 sources
- Membership of Principal UN Organs | United Nations
The General Assembly's membership is made up of all of the UN's 193 Member States, after the admission of South Sudan on 14 July 2011 as the 193rd Member of the United Nations.
- About Us | United Nations
The UN’s Membership has grown from the original 51 Member States in 1945 to the current 193 Member States.
Qin was supported by one state, Wei, which it had annexed two years previously.
This sentence misstates Wei’s status. In 318 BC, Wei was part of the anti-Qin coalition, not a state Qin had already annexed.
Full reasoning
The claim does not fit the historical record.
- A standard summary of the Warring States period says that in 318 BC the states of Zhao, Han, Yan, and Chu united with Wei against Qin and were defeated. That directly contradicts the article’s statement that Qin was "supported by" Wei.
- If the sentence instead meant the smaller state Wey/Wei (衛) rather than the major Warring State Wei (魏), that still does not work: Academia Sinica summarizes that the Wei/Wey state was annexed by Wei (魏) around 254 BC, not by Qin two years before 318 BC.
So whichever "Wei" is intended, the statement is wrong: the major state of Wei was an anti-Qin participant in 318 BC, and the minor state Wey was not annexed by Qin in ca. 320 BC.
2 sources
- Zhou Dynasty - Warring States Period (ChinaKnowledge.de)
Gongsun Yan from Wei proposed to forge an alliance against the newcomer. Zhao, Han, Yan, and Chu united with Wei but were defeated by Qin in 318.
- Located Between Great Powers: History and Archaeology of the Wei State in a Geopolitical Perspective | Museum of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
During the Eastern Zhou Period (771-221 BC), due to civil strife and geopolitical struggles, the Wei State gradually declined and finally was annexed by the Weì 魏 State in the late Warring States Period around 254 BC.