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Nature 442, 132 (13 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442132d; Published online 12 July 2006

Speaking for Taiwan about colours, maps and politics

Michael Chen1

  1. Taipei Representative Office in the United Kingdom, 50 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0EB, UK

In your News Feature "Forward planning" (Nature 440, 987–989; 2006), you published a map of East Asia in which Taiwan and China are both coloured yellow, indicating that they comprise one country. Yet Taiwan and China have been governed separately since 1949, when the Chinese communists ousted the nationalists from the mainland in a civil war.

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