{"id":1198910,"date":"2022-01-08T04:04:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198910"},"modified":"2022-01-08T04:04:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:04:44","slug":"beijing-communists-fine-7-eleven-thousands-of-dollars-for-calling-taiwan-a-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beijing-communists-fine-7-eleven-thousands-of-dollars-for-calling-taiwan-a-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing Communists Fine 7-Eleven Thousands of Dollars for Calling Taiwan a Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbeijing-communists-fine-7-eleven-thousands-of-dollars-for-calling-taiwan-a-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198910&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>The municipal government of Beijing slapped the 7-Eleven convenience store chain with an ominous warning and roughly $23,500 in fines for violating Chinese Communist Party speech codes, including such \u201cerrors\u201d as the \u201cwrongful act of assigning Taiwan province as an independent country\u201d and using Japanese names for disputed islands claimed by China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The fines were assessed in December but not made public until a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Retail\/Beijing-slams-7-Eleven-for-labeling-Taiwan-a-country-on-website\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> by Nikkei Asia<\/span><span> on Friday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>The roughly 260 7-Eleven stores in Beijing are run by a unit of Japanese retail company Seven &amp; i Holdings. Beijing officials punished the company for referring to the \u201cSenkaku Islands\u201d by their Japanese name on its website. The islands are administered by Japan but claimed by China, which insists on calling them the \u201cDiaoyu Islands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>7-Eleven\u2019s website allegedly also included \u201cmistakes\u201d in its representation of the borders for the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, home of the brutally oppressed Uyghur Muslims, and the Tibet Autonomous Region. According to the <\/span><i><span>South China Morning Post<\/span><\/i> <span>(<em>SCMP<\/em>), the \u201cmistakes\u201d in the Tibetan borders involved territory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3162589\/7-eleven-beijing-fined-us23500-incomplete-maps-china-wrongly\">disputed<\/a> by China and India.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15914642\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/China-two-sessions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15914642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/China-two-sessions.jpg\" alt=\"BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 08: Delegates and lawmakers leave after the second plenary session of the National People&#039;s Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 8, 2021 in Beijing, China. The annual political gatherings of the National Peoples Congress and the Chinese People&#039;s Political Consultative Conference, known as the Two Sessions, brings together Chinas leadership and lawmakers to set the blueprint for the coming year. It is considered the most important event on the governments calendar and offers a rare glimpse at what President Xi Jinping and top officials see as priorities. With the pandemic largely under control in China, discussions this year are expected to signal Beijings intentions around technology competition, control over Hong Kong, and strategic threats posed by Western countries including the United States. The political meetings, held at the Great Hall of the People at the edge of Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, can typically last for up to two weeks. (Photo by Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delegates and lawmakers leave after the second plenary session of the National People\u2019s Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 8, 2021, in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The Chinese Communist Party is particularly sensitive about any reference to Taiwan as an independent country. China frequently uses economic leverage to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/08\/02\/four-u-s-airlines-face-august-deadline-to-comply-with-chinas-demands-on-taiwan\/\"><span>force<\/span><\/a><span> foreign companies<\/span><span> to change verbal or visual references to Taiwan on their websites that depict it as anything but a province of China. Taiwan is a sovereign state with no political ties to the government of China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>China has also forced foreign companies to change products that did not conform with Chinese Communist ideology, notoriously including a <\/span><span>T-shirt <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/retailer-gap-says-sorry-for-t-shirts-incorrect-china-map\/\"><span>sold<\/span><\/a><span>&nbsp;by The Gap that showed an outline of China without depicting Taiwan and other islands it claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nikkei Asia quoted a statement from Seven &amp; i Holdings that \u201csincerely\u201d accepted the punishment from Beijing. The company promised to \u201cdo our best to prevent a recurrence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2511_665403\/202201\/t20220107_10480006.html\"><span>addressed<\/span><\/a><span> the 7-Eleven fine in a press conference on Friday, although he claimed not to have been aware of the story until a reporter brought it up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI would like to reiterate that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China\u2019s territory and the one-China principle is a universally recognized norm in international relations and the consensus of the international community,\u201d Wang said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The municipal government of Beijing slapped the 7-Eleven convenience store chain with an ominous warning and roughly $23,500 in fines for violating Chinese Communist Party speech codes, including such \u201cerrors\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}