UBC quietly changes references to Taiwan amid sensitive political climate

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The simple rule that nobody seems to follow is to never become dependent on somebody who isn’t very nice. All the trade between the world and China is making it impossible to stand up to their policies and our own companies are censoring and punishing us now for not promoting their propaganda.

Next I expect to see massive Chinese companies buying large stakes in news and media agencies while promoting their sale to Chinese markets. Once everything is entangled enough, everything will be pro-Beijing

Are we "dependent" on China, or merely taking their bribes (in the form of investment money and low-wage labor)?

In this case, the change is due to a dependency on Workday, which has a dependency on the ISO standard, which is dependent on the United Nations.

cf, Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names of Countries.

The cursed ISO 3166 standard for country names is truly everywhere. Just to point this out in case anyone here is still using ISO 3166: please take a look at the Unicode CLDR data [1]. It is just all-around better.

[1] http://cldr.unicode.org

What's Taiwan? I heard a younger person ask this recently. The One China Policy is going along extremely well when American youngsters never heard of Taiwan.

I mean, good luck trying to get a typical American to point out Kansas on an unlabeled map of the United States. I know I can’t.

In fairness, I am unsure whether I could complete this challenge for Kansas, but I can for Taiwan.

Seriously? I’m Canadian, and give me a map of the US with state lines included, and name tags of the individual states, and I could probably correctly match up 80+% of them.

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