Thursday, November 21

Via Best of the Web: according to Damien McElroy, China has launched a campaign to stop Westerners referring to the world's tallest peak as Mount Everest and instead start using its official Chinese name, Mt Qomolangma, by next year. "'British colonialists raped the sacred mountain of the Tibetans by giving it a false name,' said the report." Here's another article, which doesn't mention the 'rape' business. All pretty silly, if you ask me. By the way, when are we going to start calling China "Zhongguo," hmm?

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