ENSIFERUM Confirm Five-Date Tour Of China

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1. Taipei is in Taiwan. Only the PRC claim it to be a part of a part of the PRC. The post should be changed to reflect that; it doesn't help if claims like these are accepted as fact in the West. Hope people would agree.

   Jon wrote on 11.11.2009 at 12:52

2. I totally agree with thee Jon

   Don "Yarr" wrote on 11.11.2009 at 18:19

3. I'm with you, Jon!

   CanuckFan wrote on 12.11.2009 at 00:50

4. thanx jon :)
   i'm taiwanese and people should notice now about what Chthonic sings and do

   Pamela wrote on 12.11.2009 at 17:16

5. I'm glad people agree - and I agree with you, Pamela :)
   
   However I'm slightly perturbed that the news story has remained unclarified...

   Jon wrote on 13.11.2009 at 06:12

6. OK, according to Doris Yeh's (bassist of Chthonic) Facebook Ensiferum has corrected the list on their website; it now reads Taipei, TAIWAN. Good on you boys! :D

   Jon wrote on 14.11.2009 at 06:47

7. :)

   Pamela wrote on 14.11.2009 at 16:40

8. Well, Taipeh is not in the People's Republic of China (PRC), but it is in the Republic of China (ROC). Taiwan is not a state, but only the name of an island. The official name of the state commonly known as "Taiwan" is ROC (the Pescadores Islands, for example, belong to the ROC, as well, not only the mainland). Both states, the ROC and the PRC claim the whole of China, including Taiwan, as their own national territory. This confusing situation has historical reasons: The ROC is the original, democratic government of China that was driven out by Mao's communist forces and fled to Taiwan, and established itself there. Nevermind that Taiwan was conquered by China only in 1662 from the Dutch ...

   Almagest wrote on 22.11.2009 at 02:03

9. To make a long story short, correct would be the following:
   
   Beijing (PRC)
   Taipeh (ROC)

   Almagest wrote on 22.11.2009 at 02:04

10. Slow response I know, but Almagest hits on an important point, which is that the PRC has no more claim on Taiwan than the Netherlands. The key difference between the PRC and the ROC however, is that the ROC is pretty much restricted to Taiwan and referred to as such, whereas the PRC is an ambitious and expansionist government that looks to claim other countries such as Taiwan and Tibet as its own when it has little corporeal support. The Western world is shitting itself too much over China's recent economic increases in power for these facts to be made more widely known.

    Jon wrote on 06.12.2009 at 19:33