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Taiwan marathon official regrets prizes depicting gold Chinese guns

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Mar 25, 2025
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Hsu Chi-chieh, a legislator in Taiwan, apologized this week after winners of a marathon held there were given prizes that despicted the Chinese QBZ-05 machine gun. He said it "was an unintentional mistake" but the Associated Press hardly elaborates on what happened.

Underscoring the apparent incompetence behind the incident, the Feng…

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