The Asianist

Earlier Google got into something of a controversy over its map showing Taiwan as "a province of China," thus seemingly taking Beijing's side.

Now, Angry Chinese Blogger reports that Google has changed its story, sort of:

In September, Google became embroiled in an argument over its naming of Chinese-Taiwan as ‘Taiwan, Province of China’. In October, Google Merged its Google Map service with its Google Local service, and in doing so removed the legend describing the island as a Chinese province. Problem solved? Not quite.

It appears that Google has not entirely gone over to Taiwan’s side.

Apparently, Taiwan is only Taiwan so long as you speak English, and the same goes for Taipei.

I guess Google learned a thing or two from the Palestinian leaders who speak peace in English and preach violence in Arabic.