The foreign ministry has condemned a Chinese move to force a computer conference to label Taiwan as a region and not a country.
The ministry says Chinese pressure on the International Conference on Computer Vision 2019 in Seoul constitutes political meddling in international technology exchanges. The ministry also calls the move a suppression of academic freedom.
It says that Beijing’s pressure cannot change the fact that Taiwan is not a region of China. It also says that the use of pressure will only serve to worsen Taiwanese people’s views of China.
The ministry says it has already informed the organizer and asked it not to give in to China’s pressure.