In the Miss World 1998 , the government of the People 's Republic of China pressured the Miss World Organization to rename Miss Republic of China 1998 to " Miss Chinese Taipei " ; it has been competing ever since under that designation . The same happened in 2000 , but with the Miss Universe Organization . Three years later at the Miss Universe pageant in Panama , the first official Miss China and Miss Taiwan competed alongside each other for the first time in history , prompting the PRC government to again demand that Miss Taiwan assume the title " Miss Chinese Taipei " . The contestant in question , Chen Szu-yu , was famously photographed holding her two sashes . Today , neither Miss Universe nor Miss World , the two largest pageant contests in the world , allow Taiwan 's entrants to compete under the Taiwan label . In 2005 , the third largest pageant contest , Miss Earth , initially allowed beauty contestant Li Fan Lin to compete as " Miss Taiwan " ; a week into the pageant , however , her sash was updated to " Taiwan ROC " . In 2008 , the official name for the ROC , was changed to " Chinese Taipei "
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