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If 'Hong Kong' can stand on its own in the ISO list, I really can't see the PRC being insulted by calling 'Taiwan', well, 'Taiwan'. It seems the dropdown here
by gurkendoktor 15y ago
If 'Hong Kong' can stand on its own in the ISO list, I really can't see the PRC being insulted by calling 'Taiwan', well, 'Taiwan'.
It seems the dropdown here is just a harmless tech demo based on ISO, but this is such a common mistake. Even the rails/country_select thingie on GitHub has the same trap included. Use it and you are bound to make Taiwanese users unhappy, which already happened to Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, ...
- Gormo 15y agoThe PRC claims Taiwan as an integral part of China. But Hong Kong is a 'special administrative region', i.e. an autonomous jurisdiction for which China essentially took over as the colonial power.