Why Taiwan isn’t “Taiwan” at the Olympics

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Came across this video: Why Taiwan isn’t “Taiwan” at the Olympics.

This video shows the history of Taiwanese athletes using 6 different names inside the past century at the Olympic Games.

This is not political post, but a post of history and can help everyone understand how difficult it is for Taiwanese athlete to take part in world events, like sports (we are not in UN, WHO, WHA, ICAO, ILO, UNESCO, UNFCCC, IMF, World Bank etc)

Taiwan may not be out there much, but products of Taiwan is every where, ie the semi conductors made by TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) has a 71% of the world market share for semiconductors. Taiwan gives the best products to the world and do not use it to bully friends or non-friends to become friends with Taiwan.

Here is the video:

What this video doesn't tell you is, Olympic uses the Chinese Taipei IOC flag,
but the Paralympic is another flag. world university games, Deafolympics etc, are all different flags.

For the sake of competing - as in the video, Taiwan choose to remain silence and use different sporting flags that allow Taiwanese to compete for the sake of the athletes.

Olympics history - during time of war in Ancient Greece, The Ekecheiria: The ancient Greek "truce" (ekecheiria, literally "staying of hands") was a sacred tradition designed to grant athletes and spectators safe passage to and from Olympia and ensure the sanctuary itself was immune from attack. Thus allowing the Games to continue peaceful.

IOC:


Para


World university:


Deaf:

 

[Gtsnake]

You say it's not political but in fact it is exactly political. The history is a complete crock of sh!t due to China interference.

Athletes or any representative from TAIWAN are not allowed to use the country name because China doesn't recognize TAIWAN as a sovereign independent country. So therefore any time there is an international event or designation it has to be listed as Chinese Taipei. Taiwan is not in the United Nations and was rejected by them because of China.

The worst part is that other countries go along with it for fear of displeasing China. The good thing is countries are finally pushing back and starting for formally recognize Taiwan. Lithuania and Estonia are becoming friends and allies formally recognizing Taiwan because they understand repression from Soviet control.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

You say it's not political but in fact it is exactly political. The history is a complete crock of sh!t due to China interference.

I mean, my post is not for political, but to give the history of the flag we need to use.
Someone noticed universaide (world university games) was another flag as shown above.

Athletes or any representative from TAIWAN are not allowed to use the country name because China doesn't recognize TAIWAN as a sovereign independent country. So therefore any time there is an international event or designation it has to be listed as Chinese Taipei. Taiwan is not in the United Nations and was rejected by them because of China.

Republic of China was one of the founding members of the UN in 1945, until it was kicked out in 1971 (in contrast, the ROC named Taipei as the capital from1949 till present, the previous capital was Nanjing 1927-1949, and Beijing 1912-1927)

The worst part is that other countries go along with it for fear of displeasing China. The good thing is countries are finally pushing back and starting for formally recognize Taiwan. Lithuania and Estonia are becoming friends and allies formally recognizing Taiwan because they understand repression from Soviet control.