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Muddying the waters
KENNY COYLE exposes the confusion and misinformation at the heart of Western media coverage of China and Taiwan
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SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
WESTERN news media consistently counterpose China and Taiwan as distinct and even mutually exclusive entities.
The historical, cultural and even constitutional realities are quite different, if admittedly rather complicated to outsiders.
Let’s take the most basic point first. In most Western media accounts of the China-Taiwan issue, China is synonymous with the territory under the direct control of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), but usage of the term Taiwan is sometimes deliberately ambiguous.
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