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L’écrivain de la MLB Michael Clair remplace « Taiwan » par « Chinese Taipei » lorsqu’il cite le joueur Tsung-Che Cheng : « Tous les fans qui sont venus du Chinese Taipei nous gâtent et cela me donne un supplément d’énergie »


Personne à Taiwan ne qualifierait jamais ainsi son pays de Taipei chinois.

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Par baribigbird06

12 Comments

  1. Reignaaldo

    > Nobody from Taiwan would ever refer to their country as Chinese-Taipei like this.

    No doubt about it, people there in Taiwan REALLY wants them and their national team to be called as Team Taiwan alright [as evidenced by this video yesterday](https://youtu.be/QDJ0XCqMYu4?si=WG6UMR-465eyBaDI).

  2. Alaric4

    There is a quote later in the article from one of the fans saying « Our members come all the way from Taiwan… ».

    So either Cheng did say Chinese Taipei (maybe the players are under instruction) or the writer is being inconsistent in the replacement. A further option would be that the Cheng quote actually came via team PR rather than directly from the player.

  3. Crazy_Baseball3864

    The article made 2 references to Taiwan in the article from quotes from band members, when they were talking about the country 

    It seems like he only used Chinese Taipei when referring to the team specifically, he is remaining consistent in that usage as far as I saw.

    Except for that Chung quote. Either Chung said Taipei or there was an error in translation or editing, probably the latter 

  4. Fuzzy-Heart

    I want to shit on this writer because a quote is a quote. But I will say that it is really strange that other quotes in the same article outright use Taiwan and Taiwanese.

  5. nWhm99

    “Who flew from Chinese Taipei” lol. Chinese Taipei isn’t a fucking place. It’s like saying “the team flew from American New York to compete”, not only is it not factual, the place isn’t a place.

  6. involmasturb

    Might have been an editor who insisted on it…

  7. Charming_Squirrel_13

    with a leftist at the game who kept insisting they were chinese taipei. reminder that even leftists have some brain dead takes. 

  8. PNR_Robots

    I’m Taiwanese and have followed Michael’s works for years (since the MLB Cut4 day), he is a really friendly guy and I honestly believe this was probably just a slight mistake when writing the article.

  9. Downtown_Type7371

    Stop finding random stuff to be mad about

  10. SandwichPunk

    As a Taiwanese, I will say it again and again. Calling Taiwan « Chinese Taipei » is like calling someone with a stupid nickname that their bully gave them.

    We are Team Taiwan. China can take our name away but they could never take our passion in baseball away

  12. Heretic_Scrivener

    Just call it Taiwan. Who cares if it makes Taiwanese Beijing mad? They can’t even qualify.

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