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Re:China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO by RegnisGnaw on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:30AM (#24590152)
Really? Are they in the Olympics? Do they have a seat in the UN? Are they in the WHO? The World Bank? IMF?
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Re:China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO by slumpt_ on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:06AM (#24590570)
Many of these things are short-circuited by China leveraging it’s substantial economic power to force the perspective in their favor.
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Re:China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO by RegnisGnaw on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:20AM (#24590738)
Which is what exactly China is doing here.
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Re:China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO by actuator on Friday September 25, 2020 @10:50AM (#24590396)
They do participate in Olympics as a separate entity but have to use the name 'Chinese Taipei'
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Re:China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO by RegnisGnaw on Friday September 25, 2020 @11:19AM (#24590725)
(taking devil's advocate view, not my own): Perhaps that chapter of Wikimedia should be called Wikimedia China Taipei instead of Wikimedia Taiwan
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