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The Olympic torch: Peace and controversy
March 27, 2008
RECENT CONTROVERSIES
Sept. 2007: Taiwan says torch will not come to the island, after months of talks with Beijing. Taiwan, a self-ruled island China claims as its own, was to be the stop before Hong Kong on the 137,000 kilometer (85,000 mile) route Beijing unveiled in April 2007.
Also see: Not quite People's Olympics
Taiwanese Olympic officials called China's linking of the island to Hong Kong an attempt to promote its view that China and Taiwan are united.
Photograph: Getty Images
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