If China built you a multi-million dollar stadium out of the (sort of) kindness of their hearts, what would you do? Well, if it were up to NAICA, we would arrange to have Taiwan’s national anthem played at the opening ceremony of said stadium in front of, among other people, Chinese Ambassador Qian Hongshan and hundreds of Chinese workers who built the enormous stadium. It would be really funny, right? And actually, China would deserve it, because we all know those Commies have ulterior motives.

Anyway, according to NPR, this knee-slapper of an incident actually occurred this past Thursday in Grenada during an opening ceremony of the $40 million Queen’s Park Cricket Stadium funded and built by The People’s Republic of China.

Grenada, which only as recently as 2005 switched it’s diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China, is the second-smallest country in the western hemisphere and is located just north of Trinidad and Tobago. NAICA believes this musical gaffe was actually a cry for attention, because really, who wants to be the second-smallest country in the western hemisphere? They must have a tough time at the Olympics.

Olympics aside, we all know that those small Carribean nations have some serious identity issues. It is generally known that it is way better to be the colonizer than the colonizee, and if Grenada is anything, it is the colonizee; first by the Spanish, then the Brits, then by those pushy French people who like to talk loudly during press screenings at Sundance. And now the Chinese were trying to be all up in their business? No thank you.

We firmly believe that Inspector Bryan Hurst, who directed the Royal Grenada Police Band in their beautiful rendition of San Min Zhu Yi was not merely confused by the similarities between the official titles of Taiwan and China, which are respectively, “The Republic of China” and “The People’s Republic of China.” Nope, this was no mistake on the part of Hurst. NAICA believes that he was just trying to do what any self-respecting colonizee would do: stick it to the man.

That or he was just trying to be funny. And to either motive, NAICA says, “Bravo.”

p.s. we do realize “colonizee” is not a real word.