From Reuters, via CNET News:
Taiwan’s government has asked Web search company Google to stop calling the self-ruled island a “province of China” on its Google Maps service, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday…
“It is incorrect to call Taiwan a province of China because we are not,” foreign ministry spokesman Michel Lu said. “We have contacted Google to express our position and asked them to correct the description.”
The foreign ministry has not received a response from Google.
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