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In an article published last week, the British 'Economist' parrots China’s lie that Taiwan is a part of it, and in the process erases the history of the nation’s indigenous communities (www.taipeitimes.com)

submitted 1 month ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Last week the Economist (“A short history of Taiwan and China, in maps,” July 10) and Al Jazeera both sent around short explainers of the Taiwan-China issue.

The Al Jazeera explainer [...] was fairly standard, and it works because it appeals to the well-understood convention that Taiwan enters history in 1949 when the KMT retreats to it.

Very different, and far more pernicious, was the biased, error-studded production by the Economist. Centering Taiwan against Chinese history, it claimed that “After Japan’s defeat in 1945 Taiwan was ceded to the nationalist government of the ROC [Republic of China]” and that Taiwan became a province of the Qing empire in 1885. Neither is correct: Taiwan was not made a province by the Manchus until 1887, and it was never ceded to the ROC. Moreover, in the best pro-China fashion, Japanese rule in Taiwan simply disappears from the discussion.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago

Sounds about right for Britain.