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Taiwan statehood and the plight of local newspapersPosted by Joel Martinsen, February 22, 2008 7:04 PM
This clip from the front page of the Taizhou Evening News comes from the blog of Zan Aizong, who noticed that the lead article, discussing the Zhejiang city's import/export economy, contained the line "For imports, the top five countries were Japan, the USA, Korea, the Netherlands, and Taiwan." Obviously, the presence of Taiwan on the list means that "countries" ought to be "countries and regions." Whose fault is it? Zan traces it back to a report from the Hangzhou Customs Office that was posted on 24 December, 2007 (here's a screenshot of the page before it was edited). The Taizhou Evening News report was basically a verbatim copy of that report. Zan also remarks:
At the bottom of the front page is the line 刊号:浙字第024号, indicating that the paper is registered under the license number "Zhejiang #24" rather than a standard national number issued by GAPP. It's apparently able to do this by virtue of its affiliation with the local party newspaper. Calling Taiwan a country is just one unfortunate expression of a larger problem facing the Taizhou Evening News and other local newspapers that are caught between the party and the marketplace. Here's how one Taizhou resident described the newspaper in 2006:
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Comments on Taiwan statehood and the plight of local newspapers
Chinese people's obsession over Taiwan, which has almost no influence on their lives, is downright disturbing. They should at least be able to acknowledge the fact that it is a de facto separate, functioning country, and not waste time going after people who say so. If the Koreans can do it, why not the Chinese? And, maybe if they weren't so obsessive, the Taiwanese would actually want to reunify with them.