Foreign Ministry Protests UK Mandarin Course Calling Taiwan Part of China

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Taiwan's foreign ministry is demanding changes to what it says is a partially UK-government funded Mandarin program that treats Taiwan as part of China in its learning materials.

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00:00Taiwan has officially protested a UK Mandarin program's teaching materials, which characterized

00:06Taiwan as part of China.

00:08The Foreign Ministry here says the Mandarin Excellence Program is a language learning

00:12program formed from a partnership between the British Council and the China-affiliated

00:16Confucius Institute at the University College London.

00:20The British government helped support that program.

00:22The ministry says it has expressed concern and demanded changes through Taiwan's representative

00:27office in London.

00:28The Foreign Ministry says it rejects Beijing's distortion of facts through its Confucius

00:33institutes.

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