Comments on: U.S. and Beijing Disagree on Obama’s Chinese Name: Global Geographic Times, China http://themoderatevoice.com/53458/u-s-and-beijing-disagree-on-obamas-chinese-name-global-geographic-times-china/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:33:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: passerby2 http://themoderatevoice.com/53458/u-s-and-beijing-disagree-on-obamas-chinese-name-global-geographic-times-china/comment-page-1/#comment-233570 passerby2 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:47:29 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=53458#comment-233570 Why all this fuss?? <br><br>Must be the Chinese who are trying to change Obama's name - after all he is the American president, not the CCP chairman. It is not up to them to decide. They choose the translation for their chairman and other countries choose theirs. Or is that just to simple and fair? Why all this fuss??

Must be the Chinese who are trying to change Obama's name – after all he is the American president, not the CCP chairman. It is not up to them to decide. They choose the translation for their chairman and other countries choose theirs. Or is that just to simple and fair?

]]> By: taenom http://themoderatevoice.com/53458/u-s-and-beijing-disagree-on-obamas-chinese-name-global-geographic-times-china/comment-page-1/#comment-232851 taenom Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:26:24 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=53458#comment-232851 Must have been the other way around - Chinese probably wanted to change the name from the U.S. phonetic rendition which should have been the official version. Must have been the other way around – Chinese probably wanted to change the name from the U.S. phonetic rendition which should have been the official version.

]]> By: pacatrue http://themoderatevoice.com/53458/u-s-and-beijing-disagree-on-obamas-chinese-name-global-geographic-times-china/comment-page-1/#comment-232186 pacatrue Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:00:39 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=53458#comment-232186 Weird post. It sounds like a simple phonetic request. The word for Europe in the pinyin Romanization, standard to the PRC, is Ouzhou, where the "ou" is pronounced like the vowel in boat, not bout. In other words, "ou" is the actual vowel in Obama's name. Wonder why they came up with "au" in the first place. Weird post. It sounds like a simple phonetic request. The word for Europe in the pinyin Romanization, standard to the PRC, is Ouzhou, where the “ou” is pronounced like the vowel in boat, not bout. In other words, “ou” is the actual vowel in Obama's name. Wonder why they came up with “au” in the first place.

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