After Beijing's decades of effort trying to suppress any notion that Taiwan is a country rather than a wayward province, greeting him as “Mr President” was almost unthinkable. A simple “mister”, however, would be nearly as taboo, given Chinese notions of hierarchical propriety.
幾十年來，北京一直努力壓制這樣的提法：臺灣是一個國家，而非一個不受控制的省份。「馬總統」的稱呼是無法想像的，但如果直呼「馬先生」，根據按職位等級賦予稱謂的中國文化傳統，這也是近於犯忌的。
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