2019-02-25 09:59 | Global Times
World Mobile Communications Conference (MWC) will be available in Spain on the 25th. The Taiwan authorities refused to attend because the registration website was called "Taiwan, China, one province". The pro-green Liberty Times said on the 24th that the organizer of MWC, the "Global Action Communication Systems Association" (GSMA) headquartered in the UK, and the Barcelona Exhibition Center in Spain, which hosts the conference, called Taiwan "a province in China" on its registration website.
"Central News Agency" said that MWC is one of the most important communications industry events in the world. Taiwan representatives have signed up for the conference under the name "TAIWAN" over the years, "This year is the first time it has been degraded." Taiwan's "Ministry of Foreign Affairs" said on the 23rd that "the attitude and position of GSMA and other people affecting business behavior due to political factors have strongly condemned it," and instructed Taipei's representative offices in the United Kingdom and Spain to contact GSMA and others for corrections many times, but GSMA and other departments still decided to refuse to correct the problem based on the title used by the UN and the International Telecommunications Union website.
United News Network said that Zhan Tingyi, chairman of the Taiwan "National Communications Commission" (NCC), who originally led the delegation to participate in the MWC, decided not to attend the meeting. However, the NCC said that the MWC is a non-governmental organization activity and does not want to be so complicated. The 5G era is approaching, and the NCC cannot be absent and will send two other personnel to attend.
However, the protests from the Taiwan authorities have not affected the interest of many companies on the island for MWC. Zhonghua Telecom said it would attend the conference and communicate with other participants. Some netizens mocked, "What's the use of protest?" "Taiwan's opportunity to attend an international conference was just a little bit by the DPP."
In recent times, many countries have become more rigorous in terms of the title of Taiwan: for example, the UK IELTS test is marked as "Taiwan, China"; earlier, some international brands publicly apologized for regarding Taiwan as a so-called "independent political system" or not included in China's territory; the US State Department website, the US State Department Consular Office website and the page introducing Taiwan by the Trade Representative Office also removed the "blue sky, white sun, red ground" flag.
According to Taiwan's Economic Daily on the 24th, Taiwanese manufacturers are actively rushing to enter MWC, MediaTek and Xinhua are strongly exploiting chip products, HTC is mainly VR all-in-one, Zhonghua Telecom teams up with partners to showcase 5G smart edge data centers, Netcom Factory Mingtai, Zhonglei and Qiqi are strongly exploiting 5G equipment. Hongda Electric Chairman Wang Xuehong was invited to deliver a speech at MWC, and Hongda Electric will also deliver VR all-in-one machines for the corporate market.
(Original title "Taiwan, China's One Province"!" Editor Wang Rongrong)
