Taipei - Taiwan on Thursday welcomed China's decision to allow the designation Chinese-Taipei for the Taiwan team participating in the Beijing Olympics, calling it "a goodwill gesture" from Beijing. Taiwan's ruling party KMT made the rearms in response to a report in the China News Agency, which referred to Chinese-Taipei athletes, not China-Taipei athletes as the Chinese media has been using in the past month. KMT Spokesman Lee Chien-jung said the KMT welcomed Beijing's move. "After the dispute over the name had erupted, KMT chairman Wu Poh- hsiung instructed the KMT to consult the Chinese Communist Party, and now we finally have received a goodwill response. Today's development is helpful to building mutual trust," he said. China's dropping the controversial name - China-Taipei - for the Taiwan team has removed an obstacle...
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