Netherlands changes name of representative office in Taiwan

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By Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2020/04/28 14:52


Dutch office in Taiwan unveils its new name. (NOT Facebook screenshot)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Netherlands Trade and Investment Office has changed its name to “Netherlands Office Taipei,” a revision which has led the Chinese embassy in the European country to demand clarification, reports said Tuesday (April 28).

The name change came as the Netherlands flew over 3,999 tulips and stroopwafels to Taiwan to thank the island country and its hospital workers for donating face masks to help in the fight against the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The Dutch representative in Taipei, Guy Wittich, described the new name as “a little bit less, but a lot more,” CNA reported. Even the limited change has managed to raise eyebrows in China, which has consistently sought to picture Taiwan as a province and limit its international space by barring it from international organizations and demanding name changes on corporate websites.

The Chinese embassy in The Hague reportedly asked the Dutch foreign ministry for a “clarification” of the Dutch office’s new name since Taiwan “affected the country’s core interests,” according to Chinese media reports.

The Netherlands recently recalled 600,000 Chinese face masks due to quality problems after they had already been distributed to hospitals. Several countries have reported similar issues, causing Beijing’s propaganda campaign to backfire while a growing number of governments ask for an investigation into the origins of the pandemic.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3924321

 

[Agha Sher]

Taiwan deserves more recognition. In the end, they are the real China

 

[Chhatrapati]

Change this center of cultural exchange bull crap name, to what it is. Embassy of X in Taipei.

 

[Beast]

Taiwan deserves more recognition. In the end, they are the real China

Yes, a good Chinese who obey the white must be a good Chinese to you?

A Chinese who stand up for their own right must be a bad Chinese?

 

[rishav]

Stand up ??..or bow down and beg ??

Hide your strength , bide your time . Look at china now .

 

[Viva_Viet]

@waz @Horus @WebMaster @Slav Defence

Another derail thread tactics by posting unrelated and provoking post. Please take action.

@waz @Slav Defence this guy keep making trouble for PDF members many times when we r against his lie.

Plz take some action to CN trollers here.China Govt has banned all Chinese to access PDF and keep lying,but they keep using VPN to pass the firewall to make trouble for the forum.

All Cnese using VPN( like Beast )to keep trolling here must get pernament ban, cos they only wanna spread fake news and make trounle for PDF members, thats against forum rules

Hide your strength , bide your time . Look at china now .

Okay,lets look .....ops, so many desperate Cnese during the pademic. No money, no food aid from the Govt, dont know how can they survive

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China’s poorest pay the price of coronavirus outbreak

Marginalised families face pressure of travel and job restrictions as income streams dwindle The Cai family are seen at dinner, as a TV broadcasts news on the coronavirus in the living room of their home in Shanghai, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus, February 20, 2020. Picture taken February 20, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

A fifth of Chinese households cannot survive much beyond two months without any income ©

and Emma Zhou in Beijing March 15 2020 70 Business is tough for the illegal taxi driver searching for fares among the handful of people waiting at the bus stop outside Picun, a migrant worker village on the outskirts of Beijing. “I used to make about 600 to 800 yuan ($86 to $115) per day, but now I’m down to 80 to 100 yuan”, he told the Financial Times, before he was asked to move off — without passengers — by traffic officials. Data suggest that the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 80,000 people in China, is being brought under control. However, months of restrictions on travel, work and daily life are putting enormous pressure on families at the margins of Chinese society.

A fifth of Chinese households can survive only 2.3 months without any income, while 40 per cent cannot last past three months, according to a survey of 120,000 people conducted last week by the China Household Finance Survey and Research Centre, a respected independent consultancy in Chengdu. “We cannot say if the impact of the outbreak on employment will be half a year, a year, or more, but what is for certain is that it will be longer than it is possible for some segments of society to sustain their livelihoods,” said Gan Li, director of the centre and a professor of economics at Texas A&M University.

China outspends developed nations on roads, rail and other infrastructure. But it allocates far less money to social support measures such as affordable housing, with the ratio to gross domestic product remaining at about 3 per cent, far lower than the average of 12 per cent achieved by developed nations, according to Mr Gan. I don’t plan to make big purchases any more.
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