Team China walk in the parade during the Opening Ceremony. Photo: Xavier Laine/Getty Images
China denounced NBC for displaying what the nation called an "incomplete map" of its territory during the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics, Reuters reports.
Driving the news: The map was shown on-air as Chinese athletes entered the opening ceremony and did not include Taiwan nor the South China Sea.
- "[The display] hurt the dignity and emotions of the Chinese people," the Chinese consulate in New York said in a post on its official Weibo social media platform on Saturday, per Reuters.
- "We urge NBC to recognise the serious nature of this problem and take measures to correct the error," the Chinese consulate said.
- Comcast's NBC Universal, which has broadcasting rights to the Olympic Games, did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.
The big picture: Over the past several years, the Chinese government has increasingly sought to control how international organizations and companies refer to Taiwan, Axios' Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian reports.
- Last year, the Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center changed how it refers to Taiwan, instead changing the label to “Taipei and environs."
Go deeper: Johns Hopkins coronavirus map changes "Taiwan" to "Taipei and environs"