Taiwan listed as province of China since 1974 by International Organization for Standardization
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/11/07
By: Huang Tzu-ti, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Taiwan listed as part of China according to ISO 3166 (iso.org screenshot)
The island has been wrongly referred to as “Taiwan, Province of China” since 1974 in ISO 3166, a standard that designates codes to represent the names of countries and their subdivisions, said Peter Chang (張武修) of the Control Yuan, an investigative agency that monitors other government branches.
The standard-setting body has also obstructed Taiwan from participating in events related to ISO matters, Chang added. Taiwan was a founding member of the ISO in 1947 but was stripped of membership in 1953 for having failed to pay fees since 1949, when the Nationalist government retreated to Taiwan.
Hindered by ISO and opposed by the Soviet Union, Taiwan tried but failed to restore its membership. The country lost its seat in the United Nations in 1971, and its endeavor to return to the organization was complicated by China’s joining the body in 1978, Chang pointed out.
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