Mainland clarifies name issue of Taiwan Olympic team

BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland on Wednesday called on both sides across the Taiwan Straits to dissolve misunderstandings on the name of the island's Olympic team, saying the difference in translation a history-made problem. It was not conducive to the trust-building between the two sides for some media and people in Taiwan to accuse the mainland media of violating relevant pacts and deliberately changing the Chinese-language name of the island's team from "Zhonghua Taipei" to "Zhongguo Taipei", a spokesman with the Taiwan Affairs Office under the State Council, or cabinet, said. According to the spokesman, in 1979, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) passed a resolution in Nagoya, Japan, resuming the rights of the Chinese Olympic Committee in the IOC, and meanwhile renaming the Taipei-based Olympic... [read full story]