Opening ceremony within the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan on July 24, 2021. The Olympic fireplace burns subsequent to it the Olympic and Japanese flag.
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China criticized NBC Common for displaying an “incomplete map” of the nation in its broadcast of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, after a map displayed in the course of the arrival of Chinese language athletes included neither Taiwan nor the South China Sea.
The Chinese language consulate in New York mentioned the show “damage the dignity and feelings of the Chinese language individuals,” in a put up on its official Weibo social media platform on Saturday.
NBC Common, the father or mother firm of NBC Information which owns the U.S. broadcasting rights to the Olympic Video games, had not commented on the time of publication.
The Chinese language consulate didn’t specify why it objected to the map however mentioned: “We urge NBC to acknowledge the intense nature of this drawback and take measures to appropriate the error.”
China’s state-controlled World Instances newspaper additionally criticized the Olympics broadcast and the show of the map.
Maps’ references to self-ruled Taiwan and the disputed South China Sea have stirred controversy lately, with Johns Hopkins College final yr reversing a choice to point out Taiwan as a part of China on a map indicating the unfold of the coronavirus.
Two years in the past, U.S. retailer Hole Inc apologized for promoting a T-shirt that it mentioned had an incorrect map of China. An image posted to social media confirmed that the T-shirt didn’t embody the island of Taiwan or the South China Sea.
Disclosure: CNBC father or mother NBCUniversal owns NBC Sports activities and NBC Olympics. NBC Olympics is the U.S. broadcast rights holder to all Summer season and Winter Video games by way of 2032.
