Taiwan to skip WTO conference after labelled ‘Province of China’

TAIPEI – Taiwan said on March 24 it will skip for the first time a high-level World Trade Organization meeting in Cameroon following a dispute with the host nation over the name used for the democratic island in visa documents. The Taiwanese foreign ministry said it had lodged a “stern protest” after Cameroon designated the island “Taiwan, Province of China” in paperwork issued to Taiwan’s delegation before it departed for the March 26 to March 29 event. Cameroon then granted members of the group a “visa exemption”, but the document did not mention their nationality, misspelled some English names and…