The Cabinet is defending a decision to remove the term "Han Chinese" from its
website.

The term was apparently dropped when updates to an Executive Yuan webpage on
ethnic groups in Taiwan were carried out.

Critics claim the move is a deliberate attempt to obscure the Han Chinese
ethnicity of most Taiwanese.

But Cabinet spokeswoman Michelle Lee SAYS the move was not politically
motivated, and that the ethnicities section is based on definitions taken
from different laws.

Lee said that in Taiwan, only Indigenous people legally register their ethnic
status, while other statistics are based on data from a person's first
household registration.

In December 2022, Control Yuan member Hung Yi-chang had indicated that the
use of the terms "Han" and "Indigenous" as two broad population groups was
not conducive to eliminating racial discrimination or promoting equality...

Hung then suggested suggested the Interior Ministry's Department of Household
Registration adjust the page's wording.