TEAM TAIWAN for Sports Games

Let sports be sports, let politics be politics. Team Taiwan should not bear the absurd name “Chinese Taipei”. Leave politics out of the Olympic Games

如果真是"運動歸運動,政治歸政治",台灣就不應背負"中華台北"這個荒唐之名

Facts About Taiwan:

· Commonly known as Formosa in the western world

· Own top-level internet domain name: .tw

· Own Country Code: 886

· Own Currency: New Taiwan Dollar

· Own President and Parliament, elected in free elections

· Taiwanese enjoy a full democratic multi-party political system

· Own judiciary system

· Own Military. backed by the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA ; Pub.L. 96–8, 93 Stat. 14, enacted April 10, 1979; H.R. 2479)

· Taiwanese do not pay taxes to China!

· Own passport!

· Own Language: Taiwanese. Generations born before 1945 spoke only Taiwanese and Japanese

· Taiwanese language does not come in written form (Note: modern day Taiwanese vocabulary is comprised of Portuguese, Dutch, Hokkien, Japanese, and Mandarin. The Presbyterian missionary was the first to create written Taiwanese in the pe̍h-oē-jī orthography in the 1800’s. But it is not widely used)

· Mandarin is the common written language in contemporary Taiwan. However, the written (traditional) form looks very different from that in China (simplified). See http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/2247220-the-chinese-character-for-love-with-and-without-a-heart/

· Americans do not need visa to travel to Taiwan. Same goes for Japanese, Australians, New Zealanders, Canadians, etc.

· Taiwanese do not need visa to travel to the United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

· Chinese nationals need visa to go to Taiwan, the U.S. and most part of the world

· Taiwanese citizens need visa ("Taiwanese Compatriot Permit") to go to China

· People of Taiwan need your support. Keep Taiwan free! https://index.okfn.org/place/