With EU Help, Taiwan Gets Rare Win in Naming Dispute With China

With EU Help, Taiwan Gets Rare Win in Naming Dispute With China
Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu speaks at a news conference in Taipei on Sept. 3, 2020. Ann Wang/Reuters
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TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan officials said on Sept. 28 that the European Union had stepped in to help after a global alliance of mayors stopped referring to Taiwanese cities as part of China, in a rare win for the island amid growing Chinese pressure.

The Chinese regime has ramped up efforts to have international groups and companies to refer on their websites and in official documents to democratic, self-ruled Taiwan as being part of China, to the ire of the island nation’s government and many of its people.