Basketball centre Dwight Howard calls Taiwan a country in a promotional video with Taiwan’s vice president. (Screen capture)
BEIJING: Former National Basketball Association (NBA) star Dwight Howard has triggered a wave of criticism on Chinese social media for calling Taiwan a country in a promotional video with Taiwan’s vice president.
The video, released on Wednesday, showed the United States basketball player supporting a campaign for a select number of foreign tourists to spend a night in Taiwan’s presidential office building.
“Hello everyone, I’m Dwight Howard, and since I have come to Taiwan I have gained a whole new appreciation of this country,” Howard said in the video.
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