Chinese Taipei in NationWars
Is there a reason the casters are saying Chinese Taipei instead of Taiwan? We could even hear ZombieGrub starting to say Taiwan before correcting herself.
Posted Mar 24, 2018, 2:57 PM UTC
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Chinese Taipei is merely the official name for Taiwan for activities of the International Olympic Committee as designated by the Nagoya Resolution. As such, many international sports events adopt that name to avoid political debates, as the name is more or less accepted internationally, unlike Taiwan's official name, which is Republic of China.
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Hard to argue that choosing a name that designates it as Chinese is avoiding a political debate. I think it's merely choosing a side in one, and choosing the wrong side IMO.
Reporting on the controversy at the opening of the Universiade, the New York Times shared Taiwanese indignation over the designation, writing "Imagine if the United States were to hold a major international event, but one of the conditions was for it to call itself 'British Washington.'"
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Imagine if the United States were to hold a major international event, but one of the conditions was for it to call itself 'British Washington'.
I disagree with the analogy, since the United States doesn't consider themselves British, while Taiwan's official name is Republic of China. For the Taiwanese "Chinese" does not only refer to the People's Republic of China, similar to how for Mexicans "American" does not only refer to the United States, even though that is how these terms are commonly used (at least here in Europe).
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Whoa, you are totally confused about this. The vast majority of Taiwanese people do not consider themselves to be Chinese, and the "official" name you mention is what China wants to call them against their will, claiming them as a territory owned by China which they and the international community dispute.
The majority consider themselves to be Taiwanese people who live in a place called Taiwan.
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But Taiwan referred to itself as China in the United Nations until 1971, and the Name "People Republic of China" was coined by the Taiwanese themselves...
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For the Taiwanese "Chinese" does not only refer to the People's Republic of China
You are arguing against actual statistics. Only 3.5% of Taiwanese residents in a recent poll claim say they identify as Chinese, and 67% say they identify as Taiwanese and not as Chinese.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Taipei
It's hard for me to explain, because I'm not a native english speaker. The name "taiwan" isn't accepted by china, so the olympic comitee created an synonym.
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I like the idea of calling them "China" and "Chinese Beijing."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Taipei
Yeah, I've known about its usage in the Olympics, but I don't think I have ever seen it in Starcraft. Did they use this name in the last NationWars too?
Ugh, good catch, they did not: they called them Taiwan in Nation Wars 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=281&v=VMPh7H0fC18
I wonder what NW thinks it's doing with the switch. That's a really unfortunate statement to be making in 2018.
Don't remember to be honest. The wikipedia article does say this though:
It's probably just the easier way to go about it.