Wrong Republic of China

From "The Daily Show"

OLBERMANN: Oh, the jokes just flow like a springtime flood along the Potomac. President who? President Hu‘s on first? You mean Doctor Hu? Nobody‘s laughing in Washington tonight, or in Beijing, though, in our number four story on the COUNTDOWN, this country managed to look like the least security-conscious place in the world, and a nation where protesters are dragged away by ominous-looking guards, and the place where an antimedia White House will still give anybody a media pass, and all at the same time, mind you.

The morning started well enough. President Bush‘s introduction of President Hu Jintao of China went off without a hitch.

Then, cue the hitch.

[shows female protester shouting at President Hu]

That‘s what we saw here. But apparently the minute the heckling began, telling President Bush not to support killing in China, all three channels in China that were
carrying the ceremony live went to black.

...

The president also made an apology to President Hu for the incident, saying, quote, “It was unfortunate. Sorry this happened.”

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But just for good measure, the official announcer at the ceremony introduced the anthem of the Republic of China. The Republic of China would be the official name of Taiwan. The neighborhood President Hu is from is called the People‘s Republic of China. But, of course, that‘s a recent name change, 1949.

>> Full Transcript of Newscast [MSNBC] (4-20-06)

Oops.

I wonder if the "Republic of China" thing was intentional though as a way of winking at Taiwan or something to that effect.