As China-Taiwan relations cool, Taiwanese officials have announced that athletes will not participate in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, which will open on the 4th of next month. It is said that the reason is that the players are not available in order to respond to the infection prevention measures of the new coronavirus taken by the Chinese side.
Taiwan plans to send a delegation of 15 people, including four athletes, to the Beijing Olympics, and will enter Beijing separately from Taiwan, the United States and Switzerland.
On the 28th, the Taiwanese authorities were unable to attend the opening ceremony in order to respond to the measures taken by the Chinese side to prevent the infection of the new coronavirus, and many of the athletes were away from Beijing on the day of the closing ceremony. Announced that they have decided not to participate in either.
Regarding participation in the Olympic Games in Taiwan, the IOC = International Olympic Committee has agreed that the name will be “Chinese Taipei”, and if it is written in Chinese characters, it will be “Chinese Taipei”. Claimed that this notation was used at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Under these circumstances, Zhu Fenglian, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Taiwan Affairs Office, who is in charge of Taiwan policy in the Chinese government, said at a press conference on the 26th of this month that the Taiwanese delegation was “China Taipei delegation.”
In Taiwan, there were voices who opposed the term “Taipei, China”, saying that “Taiwan is treated as a part of China,” and attention was paid to whether the delegation would participate in the opening and closing ceremonies.
