Greenpeace took down the map and admitted that it had made an error by including Taiwan as part of China. Environmental action group Greenpeace is facing a fundraising crisis in Taiwan after it included the island in a map of China. Taiwan has been a self-ruling political entity since 1950, but China claims the territory and has pushed the international community to break official ties with the Taiwanese government. Greenpeace apologized and said it was an error, but the public statement didn't stop Taiwanese from making their anger known on the organization's official Facebook page and calling on their compatriots to stop donating. NGO workers also speculated that the inclusion wasn't actually a mistake, but a consequence of China's foreign NGO management law, which requires groups operating in the country to have a government entity sponsor. The map of China was part of a report, “Analysis: How cutting China’s coal overcapacity could help tackle its water woes,” released on July 5, and the inclusion of Taiwan quickly caught local attention. Chiu Yubin, former chairperson of Taiwan Association for Human Rights, commented on Facebook two days after the report went online: 綠色和平（Greenpeace）每年在台灣募走一億多，但只在台灣聘了幾個專職，許多本土議題也鮮少看他們發聲。重點是，他們獲得台灣民眾那麼多捐款支持，結果竟然還把台灣納入中國的領土（請見留言欄第一則）。 請轉給身邊更多人知道，可以的話，把Greenpeace捐款轉給更多本地的環保團體，比如說：綠色公民行動聯盟、地球公民基金會、主婦聯盟環境保護基金會、台灣環保聯盟、環境法律人協會等等。 來台灣海撈，然後還踐踏台灣，這樣完全在裝笑維，讓人看不下去。 Greenpeace raises more than 100 million Taiwanese dollars from Taiwan every year, but it only hires a few campaigners in Taiwan. The group is not very vocal in domestic environmental issues. More importantly, they raise so much from Taiwanese and now they place Taiwan within China’s territory. Please let others know about this. If possible, you can transfer your donation from Greenpeace to local environmental groups, like Green Citizen Action Association, Citizen of the Earth, Homemakers United Foundation, Taiwan Environmental Protection Union, Environmental Jurists Association and etc. Come to Taiwan for cash and tread on Taiwan, this is too hypocritical. His status was shared more than 1,400 times and sparked a social media campaign to withdraw donations from Greenpeace. In response, Greenpeace East Asia quickly issued an apology, took down the map and explained that it was a mistake. Moreover, they referred to their funding report 2015 and 2016 to show that the funds raised in Taiwan had been allocated for local campaigns. But the apology didn't cool the outrage. In about two weeks, more than 4,000 people visited Greenpeace’s Facebook page and gave them a one-star rating. Many also left comments such as this one: Stop donating to this unconscious organization which insults all people living in Taiwan. It can not be trusted cuz it cannot face the truth which Taiwan is never belong to People Republic of China. An ex-Greenpeace staff Renee Chou explained what had possibly gone wrong on the one hand and defended Greenpeace’s work on the other: 類似的地圖在我任職時就看過無數次，當時我們能做的就是不斷溝通，讓其他國家的同事理解為什麼不能把台灣劃入中國地圖，某種程度上，一次又一次的解釋為什麼「台灣並非中國的一部分」已經成為一種內部倡議與另類外交（誤）。 換個角度想，中國辦公室的同事也因為在綠色和平工作，不斷地被台灣同事提醒並且妥協。之前不是沒有這樣的地圖，而是因為次次都在出版前被擋下，才得以避開這樣的危機。… 綠色和平源自美加，慣於透過行動、輿論、公民力量監督政府與企業，但這些在獨裁極權的中國統統不管用。 在極其有限的政治與言論空間內，將環境工作的影響力最大化，甚至有時冒著自身安危，這些都是我對中國綠色和平同事敬佩不已的原因。 I have encountered similar errors many times when I was working [at Greenpeace]. What we could do was to keep communicating with other Greenpeace offices why Taiwan should not be placed inside the map of China. Such rounds and rounds of explanation about “Taiwan not being a part of China” have become internal advocacy and alternative diplomacy. If we shifted our position, colleagues from the China office were constantly reminded about the position and compromised. Similar maps appeared but they were blocked before going public and hence we didn't encounter this crisis before… Greenpeace is based in North America and it has been using action, public opinion and citizen power to monitor governments and corporations. Such strategies do not work out in authoritarian China. Colleagues in the Greenpeace China office tried to maximize the impact of environmental protection work and sometimes jeopardized their own security within the limits of political restriction. This is something that I truly respect.