Last week, The Economist publishes an article that touches on the current uneasy Belgian climate. This week, the same publication publishes several angry replies and also this:
SIR — Another article mentions the problems of a ”doomed attempt” by the Taiwanese to join the United Nations as ”Taiwan” rather than the ”Republic of China”, the name under which they lost their seat in 1971 (”The trouble with democracy”, September 8th). If the praline divorce does happen, couldn’t Taiwan join the UN as ”Belgium”?
Jerry Rose
Glendale, Arizona [On Belgium, trusting the markets, Google, Amerigo Vespucci, capital punishment. The Economist. September 20 2007]
Pardon me while I burst into laughter.