From correspondents in Beijing, China, 03:33 PM IST The Chinese mainland called on both sides across the Taiwan Straits to dissolve misunderstandings on the name of the island's Olympic team. 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 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 Committee as 'Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee'. Since then,...
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