Timeline for Taiwan is not a province of China
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| Feb 3, 2016 at 18:28 | comment | added | tofutim | It probably should read "Taiwan, Province of China". It doesn't mean that Taiwan is a province of the People's Republic of China. In means that Taiwan is a province of Republic of China, and than mainland China is a part of ROC. | |
| Feb 3, 2016 at 18:27 | comment | added | tofutim | This is a great read - chinapost.com.tw/commentary/letters/2012/12/26/365325/… - even the ROC constitution says that Taiwan is a province of China, not a country in itself. Unless, of course, the Taiwanese citizen is ready to give up mainland. | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 3:55 | comment | added | maddyblue StaffMod | @zetachang Fixed now. Thanks. | |
| Mar 6, 2013 at 0:37 | comment | added | zetachang | @mjibson the selecting menu show "Taiwan", but when displayed, it's still "Taiwan, Province of China". | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 23:23 | vote | accept | zetachang | ||
| Mar 5, 2013 at 19:08 | history | edited | maddyblueStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 5, 2013 at 9:59 | comment | added | Mac | ISO-3166-1 reserves a few codes for user-assigned use (e.g. alpha-2 codes, alpha-3 codes, numeric codes). Surely you can pick one of those as your representation of "Taiwan (Republic of China)", and thereby resolve the issue while remaining standards-compliant? | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 8:36 | comment | added | Denys Séguret | Related CMS question. | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 5:17 | comment | added | zetachang | Indeed it's actually a political problem rather than a technical bug. But as an user from Taiwan, I would like to be called from "Taiwan" rather than from "a province of China". | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 5:15 | comment | added | maddyblue StaffMod | Yes, I am fully aware of the situation. I read about it a few months back when I added the country list. We know that Taiwan is its own country. We like Taiwan. The question here is not about that. It is: do we want to use the standard, or the truth? This is hard since each has a strong case. | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 5:13 | comment | added | kfmfe04 | according to that link, the standard is based on UN conventions, which has succumbed to political pressure from Communist China (fwiw, Mainland China has a pop of 1.3bln vs 23mln in Taiwan - given the political climate in Mainland China this kind of suppression is not surprising) | |
| Mar 5, 2013 at 5:01 | history | answered | maddyblueStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |