UNDETERRED: With a little more than one month to go, the campaign to have the nation compete as ‘Taiwan’ in Tokyo has collected about 90,000 of the 280,000 signatures needed
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 29, 2018
By: Peng Wan-hsin / Staff reporter
A group of pro-localization organizations yesterday called for Premier William Lai (賴清
Members of the Taiwan Society and other organizations raise their fists at a news conference in Taipei yesterday calling for support for a signature drive to rectify the nation’s name at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times
德) to lend his support to a proposed referendum to have the national team compete in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics as “Taiwan” rather than “Chinese Taipei.”
China was extremely irrational in using the name rectification campaign initiated by Taiwanese civic groups as a pretext to meddle in sports events, Taiwan Society chairman Chang Yeh-sen (張葉森) said, referring to the East Asian Olympic Committee’s (EAOC) decision on Tuesday to revoke Taichung’s right to host the first East Asian Youth Games next year.
The decision was taken in a vote reportedly called by China’s representatives due to the name rectification campaign.
Taiwan, an EAOC member, voted against the motion, while Japan abstained, the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC) said, adding that the EAOC includes Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, North Korea and Mongolia.
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