Beijing: Communist regime fined Japanese company that marked Taiwan as an independent country on its website

Beijing fined and issued a warning to the 7-Eleven store chain, a subsidiary of Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holding, for displaying on its website a map indicating Taiwan as a country independent from China. The company was fined 150,000 yuans (US$23,500), according to a credit information site controlled by the Chinese regime, for making the ‘mistake’ in naming Taiwan, and also for using Japanese names to name some disputed islands in the South China Sea. The punishment to the multinational 7-Eleven chain, which owns approximately 260 stores in Beijing, was issued in December, but Asia Nikkei first reported…