A translation error that will surely cost the head of whoever made it. We are talking about the curious diplomatic incident that occurred during the visit of the Chinese President Xi Jinping in Myanmar ie in Burma. The translation of his name from Burmese to English on Facebook, in the official post, has resulted in many hours "Mr Shithole" what else if not an insult that certainly did not go unnoticed by users of the Net.
Facebook then changed the translation of the Chinese President's name but somehow the omelette had already been made and therefore the leaders of the most famous social network in the world could not but publicly apologize for what happened. "We fixed everything, all this should not have happened and will never happen again"Facebook spokesman Andy Stone explained, admitting that the president's name had never been entered in the database for verification of the translation before.
Facebook is the badly translated name of the Chinese President
A mistake that would have created havoc on the upper floors of Menlo Park and that for users certainly not gone unnoticed indeed has undoubtedly created some laughter. Less fun for the President of China and his spokespersons. That in Myanmar was the first overseas visit of President Xi Jinping in this new year 2020. The aim is to strengthen cooperation in the construction of large infrastructures at a time when, due to the persecution of the Rohingya minority, the country is seeking China's own protection. Besides, the trip is also the first visit made by a Chinese president to the country for 19 years. Among the topics under discussion, in addition to the partnership between China and Myanmar within the Belt and Road initiative, the New Silk Road launched in 2013 by Xi.
Politically, Beijing's main defender of Myanmar and of the Councilor of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi. Just her last month, at the UN International Criminal Court in The Hague she had to defend herself from the accusations of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya ethnic group. Beijing has not joined the chorus of controversy and international condemnation and Aung San Suu Kyi has boasted relations with the Chinese president since 2015.
