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by rgj 1210 days ago
“Taiwan, province of China” ???
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The Chinese put that in the ISO-3166 standard. Many statistics tools aggregte data by the ISO two-letter short country code, and automatically shown the full name in output.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes

So yeah there's that. Unless the author somehow add an extra "political correctness" step in country name processing

You don't want to get censored by the human Winnie-Pooh with authoritarian tendencies, do you?
Sorry but where did it say that in the article ? I couldn't find it..
2nd illustration in the "The Problem Index – At a Glance" section: https://i.imgur.com/dGrMV17.png
It’s in the bottom 15 problem index horizontal bar chart.
it is exactly what it is, even in according to the government on the island of Taiwan, the Republic of China.