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During last year’s Tokyo Summer Olympics, Japanese national broadcaster NHK for the first time referred to the Taiwanese delegation as “Taiwan” during its live coverage of the opening ceremony. At the opening ceremony for the Beijing Winter Olympics on Feb. 4, NHK again introduced Taiwanese athletes as “Taiwan” as they entered the stadium waving the Beijing-sanctioned “Chinese Taipei” flag. It was heartening to see NHK’s announcer ignore coercion from China and inform its audience of the correct national identity of Taiwan’s athletes. In contrast, state broadcaster China Central Television craftily tweaked the name: The announcer referred to Taiwan’s national team

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