Thousands march in Taiwan ahead of doomed U.N. bid
China has seen self-ruled, democratic Taiwan as part of its territory rather than as a separate country since the island broke away from Mao Zedong’s Communists after civil war in 1949.
Taiwan has never been part of communist China. The KMT, known as the Nationalist Party back in 1949, fled from the Communists and took over the island of Taiwan. Please educate your reporters about Taiwan or have them check the facts before writing & publishing an article like this.
Johnson W.
The People’s Republic of China (as your reporter called it “communist China”) did not come into existence until 1949. As a simple matter of chronology, Taiwan could not have been a part of China in history.
Amy
A number of readers noticed this one. We corrected: GBU Editor
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You’ve still not completely corrected it.
The article now says (in paragraph 14) that ‘Taiwan broke away from China’ - however Taiwan was not part of China in 1949. Taiwan was still legally part of Japan, and it was not until the Treaty of San Francisco in 1952 that Japan legally and officially ceded Taiwan. I might also add that Taiwan was not ceded to any state, and certainly not to China.
- Posted by MashhoodReuters annoys me with its zombie-like pasting of the mendacious “Taiwan and China … split in 1949 at the end of the Chinese civil war” and even the so-called “correction” of “the island broke away from China in 1949,” so I’m ecstatic about this opportunity to *really* correct things. (Let’s see if it’s of any use.)
I wonder if you could paste this instead:
The PRC flag has never flown over Taiwan.
First of all, my suggested pasting is true. Secondly, it’s relatively short — only eight words — and would serve as a simple way to foil China’s false “claims” — if Reuters is actually interested in doing so.
Thirdly, a real correction of Jennings’ article would have also replaced “Thousands” in the headline with “Hundreds of thousands,” since the first sentence of the article itself says “About 250,000 people.” I attended the rally, and I estimate there were closer to 500,000 there. Check my blogs for photos and video.
Finally, and most adamantly, would anybody care to explain to readers what led to the apparent Reuters policy which mandates the *purposeful* repetition of China’s lies in the first place? (If it’s not a policy, how could it be repeated so precisely and so many times?)
For everyone’s reference:
- Posted by Tim Maddog in Taichung, Taiwanhttp://tinyurl.com/3da9bj
http://tinyurl.com/2tvyyy
http://tinyurl.com/3cpvl5
http://tinyurl.com/2jho4v
http://taiwanmatters.blogspot.com