Chinese Taipei/Taiwan

S…k 717
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2021-01-02 • 1249 views • 6 replies

Please our asian specialists correct me if I'm wrong @sitenoise @HappyWithVolleyball and I'm sorry if I'm writing some nonsense, I know it is a difficult political subject.

But for the website I think @Volleybox we should merge Chinese Taipei and Taiwan nationalities, only under the “Chinese Taipei” designation, for numerous reasons :

  • Those are the same place, geographically speaking.
  • “Taiwan” players are not eligible for “Chinese Taipei” national teams if we search them, so big big risk of duplicates. It already happened a lot, even for me even though I'm aware of this issue.
  • I take the example of Taipower men 2020/21, people not familiar with the subject and flags will probably think “what the hell are those two countries ?”, “what's the difference ?”
  • All international federations consider “Chinese Taipei” as the existing nationality and national teams, I've never seen “Taiwan” anywhere.

So, what do you think guys ? I'm not at all a specialist of this part of the world, and I'm not 100 % sure of the difference between those two denominations, but I'm sure it would be much clearer for volleybox users and even for us when adding players to Chinese Taipei national teams. Don't hesitate to give me your opinion, to tell me if I'm simply off track and maybe other propositions to this problem ?

3 years ago
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Chinese Taipei is not nationality. It's the name that Taiwan use to join the Olympics. It's more political issue. I personally prefer to fill in Taiwan as nationality.  

S…kAuthor 717 16
3 years ago
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@HappyWithVolleyball Okay I understand. So the best would be to have Taiwan as a nationality for all players and… Chinese Taipei for national teams ?

3 years ago
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@Sherlock Yes. When it's not international competition, we use Taiwan for most. When it comes to International competitions, we have to under the name of “Chinese Taipei”.     

CHN_HRQ_FAN 211 4
3 years ago
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I agree that the discussed topic belongs to politically and historically complex topics…, but we are volleyball fans. I believe that we should refer to the website of the Asian Volleyball Association (CVA) https://asianvolleyball.net/new/organization-new-2/  and in menu  is in the eighth place in the western zone “CHINESE TAIPEI VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATION” www.ctvba.org.tw  . For me every national teams from this organization are  “Chinese Taipei”. 

S…kAuthor 717 16
3 years ago
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@CHN_HRQ_FAN I totally agree with you. Talking exclusively of volleyball (which is why we are all here), the best would be to regroup of those players under one single nationality, and if this nationality could be the same as the national team it would be perfect. So we are talking in our case about “sport nationality” and Chinese Taipei would then be the best as you said. Thank you for your point of view.

CHN_HRQ_FAN 211 4
3 years ago
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@Sherlock Yes, for us fans, the concept of “sports nationality” is perhaps a godsend in such difficult situations. Thank You so much.

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