NASA Is the Latest to Offend China by Calling Taiwan a Country
- Communist Party news site describes episode as ‘unforgivable’
- Foreign firms like airlines have gotten in trouble in the past
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NASA has upset China by referring to Taiwan as a country, the latest in a string of quarrels the Asian nation has waded into over wording it deems politically sensitive.
The U.S. space agency has hurt the feelings of the Asian country’s 1.4 billion people with the reference on its website, said Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for the Beijing office that handles matters related to the democratically ruled island.