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World Cup gaffe - Taiwan anthem played at China-financed stadium in Grenada
published: Monday | February 5, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody PgAjQ="true">
MITCHELL
ST. GEORGE'S, <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Grenada</SPAN> (AP):
A DIPLOMATIC gaffe marred the inauguration of a China-financed stadium in Grenada when a band performed Taiwan's national anthem, giving a new meaning to the phrase 'lost in translation'.
Chinese <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Ambassador</SPAN>, Qian Hongshan, and scores of blue-uniformed Chinese labourers who built the new US$40 million Queen's Park stadium as a gift from Beijing, were visibly uncomfortable as Tai-wan's anthem echoed inside the 20,000-seat <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">venue</SPAN> on Saturday.
Describing it as a blunder, Grenada <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Prime </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Minister</SPAN> Keith Mitchell pledged an investiga-tion into how the Royal Grenada Police Band could have prepared the anthem of Taiwan instead of China, which has waged an aggressive campaign in the Caribbean to woo nations away from relationships with its rival.
Since China and Taiwan split in 1949 amid a civil war, Beijing has claimed that Taiwan is a renegad
World Cup gaffe - Taiwan anthem played at China-financed stadium in Grenada
published: Monday | February 5, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody PgAjQ="true">
MITCHELL
ST. GEORGE'S, <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Grenada</SPAN> (AP):
A DIPLOMATIC gaffe marred the inauguration of a China-financed stadium in Grenada when a band performed Taiwan's national anthem, giving a new meaning to the phrase 'lost in translation'.
Chinese <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Ambassador</SPAN>, Qian Hongshan, and scores of blue-uniformed Chinese labourers who built the new US$40 million Queen's Park stadium as a gift from Beijing, were visibly uncomfortable as Tai-wan's anthem echoed inside the 20,000-seat <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">venue</SPAN> on Saturday.
Describing it as a blunder, Grenada <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Prime </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Minister</SPAN> Keith Mitchell pledged an investiga-tion into how the Royal Grenada Police Band could have prepared the anthem of Taiwan instead of China, which has waged an aggressive campaign in the Caribbean to woo nations away from relationships with its rival.
Since China and Taiwan split in 1949 amid a civil war, Beijing has claimed that Taiwan is a renegad