The White House's map showing Taiwan and China as separate countries rattled some nerves from behind China's Great Firewall

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  • A White House map that showed Taiwan as a separate country from China is likely to draw as sharp a rebuke from mainland social media hawks even as it excited pro-independence supporters in Taipei.
  • At a White House press conference on Monday dealing with the current crisis in Venezuela, viewers in Asia quickly homed in on a background map that highlighted China but displayed Taiwan as a separate country.
  • China claims Taiwan as its own, while Taiwan views itself as independent from the mainland. China has exerted considerable effort to enforce its view in this matter.

At a White House press conference this week dealing with the current crisis in Venezuela, attention in Asia quickly turned to a background map highlighting China — absent Taiwan — in red. This is not a map that actually exists, according to the Chinese Communist Party and its critically important origin story.

As the US National Security Adviser John Bolton, and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin held a press briefing outlining economic sanctions to force Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to step down, attention from either side of the Taiwan Strait moved to the map in the background.

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