6-14-08
Susan Brownell: Could China stop Taiwan from coming to the Olympic Games?
Roundup: Historians' Take
Actually, this was a trick question.Chinese leaders strongly desire for
The story of
The PRC’s readmission into the IOC was achieved in 1979 when the general membership approved the Nagoya Resolution, known as the “Olympic formula.”The resolution read as follows:
“The Resolution of the Executive Board is:
The People’s Republic of
Name: Chinese Olympic Committee
NOC anthem, flag and emblem: Flag and anthem of the People’s Republic of
Constitution: In order.
Committee based in
Name: Chinese
NOC anthem, flag and emblem: Other than those used at present and which must be approved by the Executive Board of the I.O.C..
Constitution: To be amended in conformity with I.O.C. Rules by 1st January 1980”
(Minutes of the Executive Board meeting, Nagoya, Japan, 23-25 October 1979, p. 103).
On our side, we were accustomed to translating “Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee” as Zhongguo Taibei Aoweihui (中国台北奥委会), which was logical, but
[…]
Apparently they saw the one-character difference between Zhongguo Taibei Aoweihui and Zhonghua Taibei Aoweihui as an important question of principle.Actually, their unspoken reason was that “if you are the ZhongguoOlympic Committee then we simply will not be called the ZhongguoTaipei Olympic Committee so that we won’t be roped in and turned into a local organ of the Zhongguo Olympic Committee, and so we insist on being called the Zhonghua Taipei Olympic Committee.”
We discussed the matter among ourselves and concluded that this one character did not involve the question of the principle of the “two Chinas” or “one
“[…] We do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race or, indeed, national origin. All we are saying, and it seems to me this is a policy that would have the support of any member of this House regardless of his party, provided he believes in a one
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