BNP Paribas mislabels HK and Taiwan， triggering boycott
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BNP Paribas， a France-based internation翻譯社，al banking institution， listed China&apos；s Taiwan island and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on par with China on its website， sparking widespread outrage and a call for a boycott on China&apos；s social media。
Global Times reporters on Tuesday found that BNP Paribas&apos； website lists Hong Kong and Taiwan without their motherland China， while Reunion Island in Africa， New Caledonia in Asia Pacific and other regions are clearly followed by “France。”
Global Times记者周二發明，法國巴黎银行在其網站上零丁列出了香港和台灣，没有标注“中國”字样。而非洲的留尼新店支票借款,汪島、亚太的新喀里多尼亚和其他地域暗地里则较着标注了個“法國”。
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BNP Paribas responded to the Global Times in an email on Tuesday that “we already use the term &apos；locations&apos； on our websites and fully take into account the status of Hong Kong SAR [Special Administrative Region]， Macau SAR and Taiwan as regions of China。”
On both of its Chinese and English websites， Hong Kong and Taiwan are listed alongside with China。
在巴黎银行的中英文網站上，香港和台灣是與中國并列的。
（截圖via 巴黎银行官網）
Such a bank should be put on China&apos；s list of unreliable entities， according to a netizen on Weibo。
一名網友在微博上说，如许的银行應當被列入中國的不成靠實體清单。
Others said that if the bank wanted to get out of the Chinese market， they could help it。
另有些人暗示，若是该银行想要退出中國市場，他们可以“助落井下石”。
As one of the earliest foreign banks to enter China， it set up its first office in Shanghai in 1860， according to its website， and currently has more than 500 employees in China。 BNP Paribas also holds 18-percent stock in China&apos；s Bank of Nanjing。
Mislabeling Hong Kong and Taiwan was not the only event that triggered Chinese netizens&apos； outrage。 The bank on Friday 除蟎噴霧,issued a statement on its Chinese website apologizing for one of its employees&apos； social media posts， after netizens found a person named Jason Y。 Ng， possibly a BNP Pari清除宿便,bas employee， who had made posts in support of the Hong Kong riots on his Facebook account。