That's rather odd. In many European countries, including Poland, it's still Peking and no one cares what the Chinese communists demand.
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As the article explains, it was only the English-speaking countries that made the change. The continental European countries, including China’s sometime friend Russia, stuck with their variants of ‘Peking’ which they’d always used.
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An Indian political party demanded Bombay be renamed in 1997 (Originally from Portuguese settlers - "Bom Baim = good bay" They had to invent a new name - from the goddess "Mumbadevi" But how come it's still "Bollywood" not "Mollywood" ?
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In Poland it's still 'Pekin'.
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My local chinese takeaway didnt change, the Number 46 is still a peking style chicken.

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I have four takeaways in my city with Peking in their name and four with Beijing in it. No idea what they call their duck dishes.
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Rename Washington, rename America.https://twitter.com/VladPutin1/status/1283159462690410497 …
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Its actually Poutine. Fries/ cheese/ smothered in gravy. Very healthy.

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You don't have to see it as 'capitulation'. In the end, it is good manners to address people and places as those who live there would prefer to be addressed (if they take objection to your practice - not the case with, say, Munich or Rome). Angora? Constantinople? Rhodesia? etc.
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Chinese demands that we pronounce Peking more the way they do was very different to changing the names of Constantinople and Rhodesia. Have the Europeans shown bad manners to China by sticking with Peking or their variants of it? I don’t think so - just more common sense.
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