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To: Seruzawa

Peking becomes Beijing.


They didn’t actually change the name only how it is ‘officially’ spelled using Pinyin. Same thing happened with Mao Tse Tung —> Mao Zedong. And as for Mumbai, wait until ‘India’ becomes ‘Bharat’.


26 posted on 12/20/2024 9:38:17 AM PST by hanamizu ( )
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To: hanamizu

When Germany becomes Deutschland and Finland becomes Suomi, I will take these clowns somewhat seriously.


28 posted on 12/20/2024 10:30:57 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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