Days after provoking India by announcing Chinese names for six places in Arunachal Pradesh, China has tweaked the name of Taiwan, which it claims as its inalienable part.
China chose a sports contest to announce the change of the name of Taiwan, a self-governed cash-rich island.
The state-run China Central Television addressed Taiwan at the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships on April 11 as “Zhongguo Taipei” instead of “Zhonghua Taipei,” a report in the Global Times website said today.
Zhongguo and Zhonghua both mean China, but Zhonghua refers to a general concept of a Chinese nation, while Zhongguo refers to the People’s Republic of China.
The change sparked criticism from Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council Chairman Katherine Chang.