DPP Legislator Kuan Bi-ling (管碧玲) said Taiwan should not accept the arrangement even though Beijing said it would position the Central African Republic between Taiwan and Hong Kong.
She said there was no guarantee that China would not change the order to place Taiwan’s team next to Hong Kong’s.
“China should stop playing with words using Chinese characters,” DPP Legislator Pan Men-an (潘孟安) said.
When asked if Taiwan had been downgraded, DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), on leaving the party’s Central Standing Committee meeting, sighed and said “the Presidential Office has been setting a low standard.”
The DPP caucus also condemned KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung’s (吳伯雄) decision to attend the Olympic opening ceremony.
“It is unbelievable” that while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged the heads of Taiwan’s allies not to attend the Beijing Olympics, the chairman of the country’s governing party is going, DPP Legislator Gao Jyh-peng (高志鵬) said.
Unless Wu is allowed to display the Republic of China’s (ROC) flag and promote Taiwan’s sovereignty at the ceremony, there would be no need for Wu to take part, Gao said
Under the 1981 protocol, the ROC flag and national anthem cannot be used at official venues of the competition.
Wu responded to the DPP’s complaints by urging the party to stop its “smear campaign.”
“What has the DPP done for our Olympic team in the past eight years? At least the KMT is fighting for more space for ‘Chinese Taipei’” Wu said before presiding over the party’s Central Standing Committee meeting.
Additional reporting by Mo Yan-chih
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