The state-owned New Vision newspaper in Uganda issued a correction on Tuesday for referring to Tsai Ing-wen as the “President of Taiwan,” rather than how China describes her role: as the “leader of the Taiwan Region.”
Although the Chinese embassy in Kampala seemed rather graceful in its acknowledgment of the correction, it is nonetheless considered to be a major oversight for a state-run media outlet to characterize Taiwan in a way that contradicts Beijing’s “One China Policy.”
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