China pressures Lima authorities to tear down large pro-Taiwan advertisements
China pressures Lima authorities to tear down large pro-Taiwan advertisements
2024-11-15
The APEC annual summit is being held in Lima, the capital of Peru, and grandees in attendance include none other than China’s leader Xi Jinping. With such a high ranking Chinese visitor, the Lima authorities reportedly removed advertisements about Taiwan from public spaces. Even Taiwan’s economy was mislabeled in press materials as "China Taipei" rather than "Chinese Taipei", the formal name it uses for APEC, and was only corrected after Taiwan’s foreign ministry complained.
In this advertising space, the word “Taiwan” appears in large letters, as it encourages the world to “chip in with Taiwan for global prosperity.” This advertisement had been specially produced by Taiwan’s foreign ministry and was not only in the Jorge Chavez International Airport, but also at major street intersections in Lima. Unexpectedly, following pressure from China, many of these ads were taken down and can only be seen on just some of Lima’s streets.
Hung Meng-kai
Legislator (KMT)
We will demand that Peru not succumb to such pressure. We should be able to make use of formal channels and official ways to put up these kinds of billboards. Why should the Peruvian government give into pressure from others?
Puma Shen
Legislator (DPP)
This is a typical tactic from China. Overseas, they won’t only put pressure on governments, but also do this to private businesses. Although a part of our advertisements can’t appear anymore, for some of the others they refused to cave to pressure, so in the end we were successful in having a certain portion of our advertisements on show.
China was not content just to suppress Taiwan’s advertising. In press packages for the media about the leaders and representatives of various countries, it appeared that Taiwan’s formal APEC moniker had been changed from “Chinese Taipei” to “China Taipei.”
Huang Chien-hao
Legislator (KMT)
We hope the Peruvian organizers will carefully review how such a mistake occurred and whether there was any political pressure involved. We hope that APEC can focus on economic issues rather than continually creating disputes over names.
Fortunately, after Taiwan’s foreign ministry communicated with the organizers, the problem was corrected. President Lai Ching-te appointed Lin Hsin-i as his APEC envoy. It’s the third time for Lin, a presidential adviser, to represent Taiwan at APEC. Lin, who has already arrived in Peru, has said he will make good use of Taiwan’s strengths in AI and silicon chips to win over international support, interact with leaders and representatives of various countries and engage them in bilateral talks, to help the world get to know Taiwan more.
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中國施壓撤我國廣告 祕魯機場"TAIWAN字樣消失"
2024-11-15
2024亞太經濟合作會議APEC正在秘魯首都利馬舉行，台灣也特別製作廣告，放在利馬機場和各大重要街口，沒想到卻遭中國施壓，才刊登一個禮拜就被撤除，現在只剩部分街口看的到。打壓動作不斷，連我國經濟體的名稱，也一度把Chinese Taipei誤植成China Taipei，經過外交部溝通才更正。
廣告燈箱上，大大寫著TAIWAN，強調為了全球繁榮，與台灣合作，這是外交部特別製作的廣告，就放在祕魯的利馬機場、首都重要路口，沒想到卻遭中國施壓，才刊登一個禮拜就撤除，現在只剩部分街口看得到。
[[立委(國) 洪孟楷]]
“要求祕魯不要屈服這樣的打壓，我們能夠用正式的管道，正式的方式來做這樣的看板，憑什麼祕魯政府要聽從其他人的壓力”
[[立委(民) 沈伯洋]]
“這個是中國典型的手段，他們在國外不是只會對政府做施壓，他們對於私人的企業也會做施壓，雖然有一個部分，我們的廣告是刊不出來的，但也有一些是他們拒絕這樣的打壓，所以最後我們還是有順利，刊登某一部分廣告”
中國不只打壓台灣登廣告，連給媒體介紹各國領袖代表的資料，似乎也刻意把我國的經濟體名稱Chinese Taipei寫成China Taipei。
[[立委(國) 黃健豪]]
“希望祕魯主辦方要好好的檢討，怎麼會發生這樣的失誤，是不是有其他政治壓力介入，我們期待說APEC能夠把重心，放在經濟議題上面，不要放在名稱上面，一直再製造爭端”
還好經過外交部溝通，主辦方已經更正，這回總統派出總統府資政、曾代表台灣出席三次APEC的林信義擔任特使，已抵達秘魯的他表示，將善用台灣的半導體與AI優勢，爭取國際支持，和各國領袖代表互動、雙邊會談，要讓世界更認識台灣。
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