Please don't bring your police state over here, kthxbye

[ilai]

This sort of thing always irks me: Taiwanese winner creates controversy at World Cyber Games in Seattle

So usually when people go up to receive their awards at the podium they wave or display their flag, cheer, whatever, and move on. But when You-Chen Liu (the bronze medalist in Project Gotham Racing 3) showed his flag, he got jeered by the Chinese team and (according to this article in Chinese) was harassed multiple times and kicked by a Chinese team member thereafter. When You-Chen was getting back to his hotel room, the Chinese team was there waiting for him, so he had to sneak by and skip the closing ceremony to avoid trouble.

Comments

[lokiect.livejournal.com]

the article says that the event organizers will probably take the blame and apologize, but wouldn't that then make it a china vs taiwan choice for them? could they get out of such a choice? it would just be kind of disgusting for them to choose china over taiwan in that case.

[shumashi.livejournal.com]

I expect most ceremonies go with some sort of standard, like "If the United Nations says they're a country, they're a country." WCG might not have thought about it enough to realize it's probably good to have rules for that sort of thing, though.

[ilai]

There's also the way the Olympics handle it, which is that the Taiwanese team competes as "Chinese Taipei". Though I can only imagine what'll happen next year in the Beijing Olympics....