Beijing: Beijing has fined the 7-Eleven retail chain to recognize Taiwan as an independent country on its website.
According to reports, Seven & I Holdings based in Tokyo has the convenience store chain, 7-Eleven, has been fined 150,000 yuan (USD 23,500) by China’s authority, Just Earth News reported.
Beijing claims full sovereignty over Taiwan, democracy from nearly 24 million people is located on the southeast coast of Mainland China, despite the fact that both parties have been ruled separately for more than seven decades.
Many popular companies operating in China on previous occasions eliminating the mention of Taiwan as a country that was separated from their website, and on certain occasions even filed an official apology after describing Chinese maps without displaying Taiwan as part of China, only Bumi News reported.
Furthermore reported that the company included GAP, Daimler AG, United Continental Holdings, Ana Holdings had resigned after describing Taiwan as a separate country.
According to Just Earth News, in May 2018, GAP Inc.
Must formally apologize after selling T-shirts on their retail outlets that describe the wrong Chinese map after social media users in China show how certain areas claimed by China, including South Tibet, Taiwan Island and South China Sea were removed.
Both and warnings to Seven & I Holdings were issued in December last year in accordance with the government-related credit information website.
Reports on websites highlight how the company further failed to describe certain South China Islands with their Chinese names and the disputed archipelago, known as Senkaku in Japan, only earth news.
Furthermore, it stated that the report also accused the map shared by the company containing errors in border labeling throughout the autonomous region of Xinjiang Uyghur and the Tibet autonomous region.
Taiwan and its legitimacy is a very sensitive territorial problem in China because Beijing considers the province as a democratic island that is governed by itself that has been governed separately since 1949.
China is also an object for the reference to Hong Kong and Macau separately rule independent countries, even though they are It is a special administrative area with greater autonomy, Just Earth News reports.
China negates a 7-Eleven chain to mark Taiwan as an independent country on its website
