---

https://goo.gl/1bUKpV

What is“Chinese Taipei”?

It is all to do with the dragon next door


ALMOST overlooked amid the flag-waving participants of the opening ceremony
at the winter Olympics in February was a tiny delegation of four competitors
walking behind a sign that was not the name of an actual country (pictured).
“Chinese Taipei” are two words that have come to symbolise the diplomatic
isolation of a prosperous island of 24m people. Using that name is the only
way Taiwan can participate in many international organisations or events. And
there are many such bodies in which the island still cannot take part at all.
Why is this? And what does the phrase “Chinese Taipei” mean?






The Republic of China (ROC)—China’s official name after the fall of the
imperial system in 1912—was an American ally in the war against Japan. But
its leader Chiang Kai-shek lost the civil war against Mao Zedong’s
Communists that followed, and in 1949 Chiang and his followers fled to
Taiwan. The island inherited the ROC name, even as Mao founded the People’s
Republic of China (PRC) on the mainland. The outbreak of the Korean war
prevented Mao taking Taiwan, and the island became an America-backed bulwark
against communism during the cold war. Initially authoritarian, Taiwan
developed into a thriving market economy and eventually a democracy. But one
of the conditions prior to Richard Nixon’s opening with Communist China in
1972 was that the United Nations switch its recognition from Taipei to
Beijing. Ever since, the mainland has enforced its claim to be the sole
legitimate government of all of China (including Taiwan) and has attempted to
squeeze the island’s international space by keeping it out of the UN and its
affiliated bodies. Taiwan now has diplomatic relations with only a handful of
small countries, such as Burkina Faso and El Salvador.





In 1976 Taiwan wanted to compete in the summer Olympics in Montreal, as the
ROC. But mainland leaders would not permit “two Chinas” to take part. The
Taiwanese refused to compete under the name of “Taiwan” because doing so
would mean setting aside its own claim to be the rightful government of all
of China. In order to take part in any international arena it needed a name
acceptable to the PRC. “Chinese Taipei” enabled Beijing to look magnanimous
in allowing ethnic Chinese brothers to compete, while not allowing any
recognition of Taiwan as a separate political entity. Taiwan swallows that
indignity in order to get the international participation it desires. While
Chinese state media use a term for it (zhongguo taibei) that translates as “
China’s Taipei”, Taiwanese media use a phrase (zhonghua taibei) implying a
broader, more cultural Chineseness. Using the name has allowed Taiwan to take
part in some important international bodies, such as the World Trade
Organisation, the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum (APEC) and the
Olympics, as well as a host of less important groups, such as the South
Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation. But it all still relies
on the goodwill of mainland Chinese leaders.


際活動只能吞下這個屈辱。中國官媒使用中國台北這個字眼，意涵為中國的台北。而台





Today, however, there is growing backlash in Taiwan against the term Chinese
Taipei, especially among young people for whom a distinct Taiwanese identity
has displaced any vestigial loyalty to the idea of a future unified China. A
recent poll in Taiwan indicated that nearly 60% of respondents consider
themselves to be exclusively Taiwanese, whereas only 37% identify as both
Taiwanese and Chinese. In February pro-independence activists submitted a
petition to the government demanding that Taiwanese athletes be allowed to
compete under the name “Taiwan” at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The trouble
is that China is unlikely to agree, and China’s word carries even greater
weight now than it did back in 1972.



----
※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 220.129.110.1
※ 文章代碼(AID): #1Qovl6Ab (Gossiping)
※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Gossiping/M.1523293126.A.2A5.html

--

作者 OdaTakeda 的最新發文:

• +61 [問卦] 台灣著名的過河拆橋人物? - Gossiping 板

  作者: OdaTakeda 114.37.25.176 (台灣) 2022-02-13 12:14:27

  本魯最近聽了很多歷史 Podcast啦 有中國史日本史也有西洋史的 發現很多故事都是過河拆橋的劇本 像是源賴朝啦、朱元璋啦、劉邦等等 台灣歷史雖然四五百年，但應該也有那種著名的人物 過河拆橋非常有名的 …

  138F 71推 10噓
• +41 [問卦] 台女要兒子聽自己的 又不讓老公聽他媽媽 - Gossiping 板

  作者: OdaTakeda 114.37.4.22 (台灣) 2021-11-27 08:48:47

  之前聽到幾個女同事在聊家裡的事啦 常常都在抱怨兒子不聽話 不照老媽的喜好吃飯或是穿衣之類的 同時又在抱怨老公什麼事都要問媽媽 如果台男從小就只能按老媽的意志跟喜好做事，那怎麼能期待他長大後成為能獨立的 …

  85F 48推 7噓
• +79 [新聞] 頭一遭！前總統訪問前副總統 呂秀蓮唸阿扁：第37集才想到我 - Gossiping 板

  作者: OdaTakeda 114.37.62.50 (台灣) 2021-09-12 16:22:14

  記者王榮祥／高雄報導〕前總統陳水扁今邀前副總統呂秀蓮，擔任自己主持廣播節目的來 賓，創下前總統訪問前副總統的特殊紀錄；兩人暢談過往執政點滴，也對民進黨現狀、兩 岸關係提出諸多看法，呂秀蓮還笑說第37集 …

  178F 99推 20噓
• +62 [討論] 中信什麼時候會換助？ - Baseball 板

  作者: OdaTakeda 101.12.28.219 (台灣) 2021-09-04 11:27:18

  中信上半季靠停賽跟瑞恩撿到一個季冠軍 結果下半季開打，上半季的問題就通通放大了 洋投扛得起的只有保拉 打者更是在比誰打得爛的 威助的調度也都被批評保守，不靈活 目前看起來教練團對於中信球員的問題根本束 …

  149F 81推 19噓
• +73 [新聞] 台灣面臨3大危機恐動搖國本 聯發科董座蔡明介籲政府重視 - Gossiping 板

  作者: OdaTakeda 114.37.4.220 (台灣) 2021-07-24 22:05:43

  聯發科董事長蔡明介呼籲，台灣面臨本土科技人才荒、新興科技領域落後以及大學教育無 法銜接高科技教育等3大危機，政府不可不慎。 聯發科技董事長蔡明介今（23日）表示，台灣正面臨本土科技人才荒、新興科技領域 …

  178F 86推 13噓

點此顯示更多發文記錄

(OdaTakeda.): [爆卦] 經濟學人: 什麼是中華台北 - Gossiping板