Researchers from mainland China are taking aim at an established language theory promoted by Taiwan’s ruling party in its efforts to carve out a separate identity for the island.

Taiwanese users, who set the language for their devices as traditional Chinese, soon noticed that Taiwan is listed as "Taiwan Province, China" in simplified Chinese characters in the map app.

In 2022, there was pushback from academics against the current Tsai Ing-wen administration’s Bilingual 2030 policy, with criticisms that English has been focused on at the expense of local languages.