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To what degree is referring to Taiwan as "province of China," (I've heard it referred to as Republic of China/ROC) pandering to the PRC/CCP? That being said, T
by parkaboy 2y ago
To what degree is referring to Taiwan as "province of China," (I've heard it referred to as Republic of China/ROC) pandering to the PRC/CCP? That being said, TIL that referring to it in this way is in line with the ISO
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:TW https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:TW
- mdp2021 2y agoIt is a matter of legal status. (And by the way, mainland administrations themselves seemingly had no issue in saying that the situation is "complicated". Nobody is fooling anyone.)
- andriesm 2y agoI had my comment about this flagged. Commenting that it's a bit unusual to show Taiwan as a province, and yet showing it's stat seperately like one does for all the other countries on the list, and not breaking down provincial stats for any other countries, strikes me as unusual, got me slammed by the moderators here. If this is the state of play on HN, I will refrain from all participation here, deapite having had an account for dozen years and having applied several times to Y-combinator etc. This makes me VERY negative about HN, because I've posted much more edgy comments in the past, and this one is quite a fair point - pointing out the logical inconstency in how they slice the data because of political reasons.