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rgj | 3 years ago

“Taiwan, province of China” ???

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est|3 years ago

The Chinese put that in the ISO-3166 standard. Many statistics tools aggregte data by the ISO two-letter short country code, and automatically shown the full name in output.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes

So yeah there's that. Unless the author somehow add an extra "political correctness" step in country name processing

hef19898|3 years ago

You don't want to get censored by the human Winnie-Pooh with authoritarian tendencies, do you?

bilekas|3 years ago

Sorry but where did it say that in the article ? I couldn't find it..

wraptile|3 years ago

2nd illustration in the "The Problem Index – At a Glance" section: https://i.imgur.com/dGrMV17.png

Gatsky|3 years ago

It’s in the bottom 15 problem index horizontal bar chart.

hunglee2|3 years ago

it is exactly what it is, even in according to the government on the island of Taiwan, the Republic of China.