In an interview with the Epoch Times, Chi Cheng (紀政), Taiwan's first female Olympic medalist, said she plans to launch a referendum next year on whether Taiwan should compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics using the name "Taiwan."

Chi Cheng spearheaded a referendum in 2018 on whether Taiwan should compete as "Taiwan" at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. That referendum failed (45% for, 55% against), mainly because the International Olympic Committee (IOC) threatened to ban Taiwan from Olympic competition if it stopped using the absurd name "Chinese Taipei." 

The IOC's threats were reprehensible. It has no right to bully the Taiwanese people into adopting a false identity. No one says "Chinese Taipei," and the Taiwanese do not want to be called "Chinese Taipei."

In the first week of the Tokyo Olympics, the media in Japan and the host countries of the next three Summer Olympics (France, the US, and Australia) have made it clear that they recognize the injustice being done to Taiwanese athletes, and they are not going to be a part of it. Even if Taiwanese athletes are forced to wear uniforms that say "Chinese Taipei," the media is still going to refer to them as athletes from Taiwan. 

The IOC owes the Taiwanese people an apology—a public one. I sincerely hope that the IOC has the humility to acknowledge its mistakes and the virtue to now do what is right: Let Taiwan be Taiwan.