They do, but only because the English-speaking world is peculiarly susceptible to this sort of manipulation. It started with Burma->Myanmar and Peking->Beijing,

They do, but only because the English-speaking world is peculiarly susceptible to this sort of manipulation. It started with Burma->Myanmar and Peking->Beijing, something nobody should have taken seriously. Nobody gets mad that Spaniards say "Londres" instead of London. It's funny how it's mostly despotic regimes that get so twisted up about these foreign linguistic matters.