Reply #15: No, It's not

[Christa]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/21/world/asia/21prexy.html?ex=1303272000&en=d9b1bdba98886fe4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Compounding the gaffe, a White House announcer introducing the national anthems at the same ceremony mistakenly referred to China as the Republic of China, which is the formal name of its archrival, Taiwan. Mainland China is the People's Republic of China. China treats American support for Taiwan, a separately governed island that China claims as its sovereign territory, as the biggest irritant in bilateral relations. Even minuscule changes in the wording of diplomatic statements on the subject are often viewed as transformative on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.