Red faces over flags blunder

Taipei - The President of Taiwan, Mr Lee Teng-hui, got a couple of rude surprises on Wednesday in Tegucigalpa, where his Honduran…

Taipei - The President of Taiwan, Mr Lee Teng-hui, got a couple of rude surprises on Wednesday in Tegucigalpa, where his Honduran hosts inadvertently tagged him head of the wrong China.

Honduras welcomed Mr Lee with full-page greetings in newspapers. But instead of identifying him with the flag of Taiwan's exiled Republic of China, the advertisements featured the flag of its rival - the communist People's Republic of China.

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