{"id":66081,"date":"2024-08-07T10:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T01:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/were-not-doing-anything-wrong-why-the-word-taiwan-is-banned-at-the-olympics"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:10:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T01:10:30","slug":"were-not-doing-anything-wrong-why-the-word-taiwan-is-banned-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66081","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re not doing anything wrong\u2019: why the word Taiwan is banned at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Angelina Yang held up a sign reading \u201cGo Taiwan\u201d at the Games, she was surrounded and had the sign ripped from her hands<\/p>\n<p>Angelina Yang thought she knew the Olympic rules &#8211; no national flags, no political messages. She was excited to support her compatriot athletes at the Olympics Games in France, where she was living and studying. So the Taiwanese student made what she thought was an uncontroversial sign &#8211; the outline of her home island, with the words \u201cjiayou Taiwan\u201d (Go Taiwan) written in Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>But as she unfurled the sign in the stadium stands to watch her team play China in badminton, she was quickly surrounded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/were-not-doing-anything-wrong-why-the-word-taiwan-is-banned-at-the-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Angelina Yang held up a sign reading \u201cGo Taiwan\u201d at the Games, she was surrounded and had the sign ripped from her handsAngelina Yang thought she knew the Olympic rules &#8211; no national flags, no political messages. She was excited to support her com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[342,3138,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olympic-games","category-paris-olympic-games-2024","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66099,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66081\/revisions\/66099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}