Reuters: Biden Censored Taiwan Map at ‘Digital Authoritarianism’ Panel on Purpose

[mystery-ak]

Reuters: Biden Censored Taiwan Map at ‘Digital Authoritarianism’ Panel on Purpose



Frances Martel 13 Dec 2021

The abrupt disappearance of a live feed showing Taiwan’s digital minister occurred because the White House panicked over a map showing Taiwan in a different color than China, Reuters claimed on Monday.

Audrey Tang, formally a “minister without portfolio” in the Taiwanese government, was speaking during President Joe Biden’s “Summit for Democracy,” a series of video addresses from some of the world’s states. Biden included the island nation of Taiwan despite the fact that the American government does not recognize Taiwan’s sovereignty as doing so would immediately sever all diplomatic ties with communist China.

Taiwan is a free, democratic sovereign nation. The Chinese Communist Party falsely claims that Taiwan is a rogue “province” of China and that its president, Tsai Ing-wen, and her administration are dangerous separatists with no legitimacy, despite being freely elected by their own people, unlike anyone in the communist Chinese government. Beijing, which has historically never ruled Taiwan, automatically cuts all diplomatic ties to any country that recognizes Taiwan’s sovereignty. Xi Jinping has threatened that anyone who acknowledges that Taiwan is a country will have their “bones ground to powder.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/12/13/reuters-biden-censored-taiwan-map-at-digital-authoritarianism-panel-on-purpose/

[Kamaji]

The U.S. should have recognized Taiwan as an independent country back in the 1980s, or even earlier.

[mountaineer]

Josh Hawley
@HawleyMO
Now our own government is censoring on behalf of #China - Joe Biden is behaving like a supplicant of the brutal dictator Xi
9:26 AM · Dec 13, 2021

Well, yeah. Follow the money.

[mystery-ak]

 Report: Biden Admin Cut Taiwan’s Video Feed During Summit To Serve China
December 13, 2021 By Shawn Fleetwood

The Biden administration reportedly cut the video feed of a Taiwanese minister during the Summit for Democracy to appease China last week, after he displayed a map showing Taiwan colored differently than China.

According to a report from Reuters, sources familiar with the matter claim “the video feed showing [Digital Minister Audrey Tang] was cut during a panel discussion and replaced with audio only – at the behest of the White House.”

“The White House was concerned that differentiating Taiwan and China on a map in a U.S.-hosted conference — to which Taiwan had been invited in a show of support at a time when it is under intense pressure from Beijing — could be seen as being at odds with Washington’s ‘one-China’ policy, which avoids taking a position as to whether Taiwan is part of China,” the sources reportedly said.

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https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/13/report-biden-admin-cut-taiwans-video-feed-during-summit-to-serve-china/

[mountaineer]

China is not amused at any hint of Taiwan or, for that matter, freedom:

Hong Kong University orders removal of Tiananmen Square massacre memorial statue
As of now, the monument still stands on campus, according to a student at the university
Joseph Silverstein
December 14, 2021

Hong Kong University, now under direct Chinese Communist Party control, has ordered that the “Pillar of Shame” sculpture be removed from campus.

The Pillar of Shame is a fiber cement statue dedicated to the protesters who were killed by the Chinese regime during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

“The sculpture shows 50 anguished faces and tortured bodies piled on one another, and has been on display at the university campus for more than two decades,” the Bangkok Post reports. ...

College Rix

[DefiantMassRINO]

So, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia are provinces of the Chi-com empire?

I guess the feed wasn't secured from intercept by Chi-coms.