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 Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:12 am Post subject: Taiwan's anthem played at China financed stadium in Grenada |
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ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) -- A diplomatic gaffe marred Saturday's inauguration of a China-financed stadium on this Caribbean island when a band performed Taiwan's national anthem.
Chinese Ambassador Qian Hongshan and scores of blue-uniformed Chinese laborers who built the new $40 million Queen's Park stadium as a gift from Beijing were visibly uncomfortable as Taiwan's anthem echoed inside the 20,000-seat venue.
Describing it as a blunder, Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell pledged an investigation into how the Royal Grenada Police Band could have prepared the anthem of Taiwan instead of China, which has waged an aggressive campaign in the Caribbean to woo nations away from relationships with its rival.
Since China and Taiwan split in 1949 amid a civil war, Beijing has claimed that Taiwan is a renegade province and should not have diplomatic ties with other countries.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/03/china.anthem.ap/index.html |
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