Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?
I wrote:
> "Taiwan, Republic of China" is as much a political statement as is
> "Taiwan, Province of China". "Taiwan" is just a place name.
Kirk Strauser writes:
> ...and a political statement that you don't recognize China's claim.
"Taiwan, Republic of China" is a political statement that you don't
recognize China's claim. "Taiwan" is neutral. Failure to parrot the
Chinese government's political statement is not opposing it: it's ignoring
it.
> I am not an authority on the matter, and my naming of an entity isn't a
> good enough reason to declare it a fact. I typically refer to the name
> of my country as "America", but that's not its official name.
Why does "official" matter? "Taiwan" is unambiguous and universally
understood.
> Frankly, I don't think that it's Debian's place to take the political
> stance that it disagrees with the name that one particular standards
> organization has given a geographical [region]...
That standards organization is a political organization which has assigned
that name for a political purpose. Debian need not further that purpose.
> ...particularly since it does accept the other assigned names from that
> list.
The other names are reasonable.
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