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FAPA gets Apple to change status of
Taiwan on Web site
CONVINCING JOB: FAPA president Bob Yang wrote a letter to Steve Jobs stating
points that showed Taiwan had the institutions that made it a sovereign country
By William Lowther
STAFF REPORTER , WASHINGTON
Sunday, Aug 22, 2010, Page 3
Following a protest from the Formosan Association for Public
Affairs (FAPA), Apple Inc has stopped referring to Taiwan as a province of China
on its Web site.
Instead, Taiwan is now listed as a separate country along with more than 20
others ranging from Australia to the US.
A senior official at Apple conceded that the company committed an ¡§error¡¨ and
that it had been corrected.
FOUND BY EMPLOYEE
The mistake was first noticed by a Taiwanese-American employee of Apple who
wrote to FAPA about it.
The employee found that Taiwan was listed as a province of China on the
company¡¦s ¡§Jobs at Apple¡¨ Web site, which is accessible to the general public.
CHINESE ¡¥PROVINCE¡¦
If an applicant clicked on ¡§China¡¨ under ¡§Country¡¨ on the Apple employment page,
the drop-down menu provided five Chinese ¡§provinces¡¨ to chose from: Beijing,
Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Taiwan.
¡§It is of course an incontestable reality that Taiwan is not a province of
China,¡¨ FAPA president Bob Yang (·¨^¨|) wrote to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs.
SOVEREIGN COUNTRY
¡§Taiwan is a sovereign independent country with its own elected president, its
own military and stock exchange,¡¨ he wrote.
¡§If American citizens travel to Taiwan, the Chinese embassy is unable to issue a
visa to Taiwan,¡¨ Yang added.
¡§In light of the fact that several Apple products are manufactured in Taiwan
itself, I ask that Apple correct its terminology in reference to Taiwan and stop
referring to Taiwan as a province of China,¡¨ Yang wrote.
In a letter of reply to Yang, the senior Apple official wrote: ¡§This is to
confirm that the error in Apple¡¦s job posting, listing Taiwan under the
provinces of China, has been corrected. Thank you for bringing the matter to our
attention.¡¨
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