Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/05/taiwan-flag-emoji-disappears-latest-apple-iphone-keyboard/

by Red_Tarsius • 7 years ago

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lilyball• 7 years ago

Meanwhile, an app showing the location of Hong Kong police deployments has been barred from the Apple app store.

This is a very weird addition to this article, given that the app was rejected by app review, not banned (it wasn't on the app store in the first place), and was already approved before this article's publication date.

ackbar03• 7 years ago

It's not weird once you realize the hongkong free press is an extremely biased anti-beijing publication

throwaway19972• 7 years ago

It's pro-human rights and socially liberal. I guess there is a lot of intersection because Beijing systematically oppresses people but the bias isn't explicitly anti-Beijing

wendyshu2• 7 years ago

Oh for Pete's sake, what next.

whoevercares• 7 years ago

Even as a native mainlander who sometimes being identified as a paid propagandist, I don’t understand why and I didn’t receive any information from my upstream contact

noah-kun2• 7 years ago

China likely trying to ease the transition.

jobigoud2• 7 years ago

The transition? Are you mixing up Taiwan and Hong Kong?

JohnJamesRambo• 7 years ago

This isn’t the reality distortion field I want to live in.

Tibet exists, Taiwan exists. This is so silly.

noah-kun2• 7 years ago

Taiwan and Tibet are part of China, but has a deal to keep the governments mostly separate until a certain date. China has made some efforts to make the changes gradual. There has been some resistance to the changes, but they are largely exaggerated or directed and paid for by the West. The U.S. official behind the murderous Contras in South America now heads a program that's paid at least $29 million to HK terrorists. Having read the CIA documents that instructed the contras to destabilize and overthrow South American states, I have no doubt there is effectively anti-China Contras/terrorists receiving the same or similar instructions and training. China is using it's power to dramatically improve parts of the world that the US has become dependant on exploiting. The West is very interested in creating a barrier between China and the Pacific to limit it's access to trade with the Americas and elsewhere. Thankfully China has many contingency plans for this and Trump's off-putting style of diplomatic relations may lose the US from friends. A better world could emerge with China's leadership, but HK, Taiwan and elsewhere may suffer attacks on civilians from US-backed thugs, and of course damage to infrastructure designed to hurt their economies. America's track record in this has not been great, and I doubt their strategy against China is fought with even more short-comings.

dmdmmfmfm• 7 years ago

The sad part is that no one wants to be part of China. This is like a forced marriage or worst a rape of other people’s liberty. Extremely one sided.

TheSpiceIsLife• 7 years ago

Taiwan <snip>, but has a deal to keep the governments mostly separate until a certain date.

I only dabble, occasionally, in reading things on the internet related to ROC (Taiwan) and PRC (China), but I've not come across anything supporting the idea there is a certain date for reunification, or that reunification is certain.

throwaway19972• 7 years ago

There isn't. GP is confusing Taiwan and Tibet for Hong Kong/Macau. TW and Tibet are territories claimed by China whereas HK and Macau are indisputably Chinese cities but under a special arrangement which theoretically should give them more autonomy.

lerno• 7 years ago

Pure desinformation. Taiwan is and remains an independent country despite the wishes of the Mainland Chinese regime.

akvadrako• 7 years ago

Taiwan (ROC) also claims that they are the rightful government of the mainland. So I don't know how you can claim they are independent.

dzhiurgis• 7 years ago

TSMC and Foxcon are Taiwanese. Hard to believe this would happen. If it’s true - shame on Apple.

t0ughcritic• 7 years ago

Chinese money talks

jchiu1106• 7 years ago

It's the Republic of China flag. It represents the whole of China.

doener• 7 years ago

"I’ve validated it with the iOS 13.2 Beta, and it's official: Apple really did remove the Taiwan flag emoji 🇹🇼 from iOS for users with their region set to Hong Kong or Mainland China. This change appeared in 13.1.2"

https://twitter.com/_danielsinclair/status/11806036739671531...

Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard

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