Taiwan’s premier has called on rival China’s team to punish a Taiwanese speed skater for wearing a suit ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
Taiwan’s premier has called on rival China’s team to punish a Taiwanese speed skater for wearing a suit ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
Taiwan’s premier wants Taiwan’s Olympic speed skater to be punished for wearing a suit as a Chinese team during training.
The symbols on both sides are particularly sensitive at a time when China’s ruling Communist Party, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, even though the island has long operated with its own national government, uses fighter jets and Trying to intimidate democracy by blowing up a bomber. Nearby.
Huang Yu-ting, one of four Taiwanese athletes at the Winter Games, posted a video on his social media page on 23 January showing his training in a Chinese suit. central news agency Reported. It said Huang apologized and removed the video.
Premier Su Tseng-chang called on the Ministry of Education and the Sports Administration to conduct an investigation so that Huang would receive “adequate punishment,” cna reported citing a cabinet spokesman Lou Ping-Cheng.
The Olympics are one aspect of Beijing’s broader campaign to isolate Taiwan.
The International Olympic Committee requires Taiwanese athletes to compete under the name “Chinese Taipei”, which obscures the island’s longstanding self-governing status.
Taiwan’s sports administration said Huang would receive no penalty, but that he should be “more aware of the sensitivity of cross-Taiwan Strait politics”. cna,
The leader of the Taiwanese team at the Olympics, Steven Chen, said the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee would review in April whether Huang was wearing appropriate clothing. cna,
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