I had no interest in China President Hu Jintao’s recent visit to Yale. But, on the morning of the visit, I burst out laughing when I read that the White House had announced the Chinese national anthem as the anthem of the Republic of China. The Republic of China is Taiwan and, to the Chinese, this was about as funny as if the Chinese had announced the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem of Iran.
This might not have been a big deal if Presidents Bush and Hu had anything of substance to announce, but they did not, and the whole purpose of the Chinese visit was to show the two Presidents meeting in a state visit. The anthem gaffe, combined with an outburst from a reporter from The Epoch Times (a Falun Gong paper), left the Chinese with a bitter taste.
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