If a government has a coup/collapses, do the new coup leaders automatically represent the government in the UN?

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If a government has a coup/collapses, do the new coup leaders automatically represent the government in the UN?

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Answer 1

Automatically? No.

For example, the Chinese Civil War. The UN continued to recognize the *Kuomintang* – the Chinese nationalist government that was fighting the Chinese communists – as the legitimate Chinese government all the way up until 1971, long after the *Kuomintang* had lost control of the mainland and fled into exile on Taiwan in 1949.