The Telegraph
Date: 28 December 2017
By: Hugh Morris, travel news editor
Taiwan has been forced to destroy around 200,000 passports after designers accidentally
A page from the erroneous Taiwanese passport CREDIT: WEIBO
used an image of Washington Dulles International Airport instead of its own Taoyuan International.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mofa) admitted on Tuesday that it would need to recall 285 passports already issued and pulp the remainder.
A page from the erroneous Taiwanese passport CREDIT: WEIBO
The error came to light after someone on Facebook noticed that the outline of an airport on the document’s pages, intended to be the airport that serves the capital, Taipei, was in fact Dulles International, DC’s bustling hub.
The first person to spot the blunder captioned the photo as the “51st state of America”, before the image was widely shared on Weibo, a microblogging site in China.
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