From earthtimes.org:
Taiwan has threatened to boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games if China insults it by treating Taiwan as a Chinese province, a newspaper said Saturday, quoting Premier Su Tseng-chang. “Taiwan’s sovereignty must not be downgraded. If China downgrades the Taiwan team’s status by calling it the ‘China-Taiwan’ team, Taiwan will not attend the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games,” the Liberty Times quoted Su as telling the parliament on Friday.
Su made the threat one day after Taiwan had rejected the 2008 Olympic torch relay, saying the arrangement of the stops on the route treated Taiwan as part of China, not a separate country.
China wants the torch to come to Taiwan from Vienam’s Ho Chi Minh City and go from Taipei to Hong Kong and Macau before entering China’s interior. But Taiwan wants the torch to come from a third country and go to the third country from Taipei, to show Taiwan is a stop on the international leg – not the domestic leg – of the relay.[Full Text]
