More like mixing up Taipei and Tainan, or saying they are both “in the south.”
Now that I think about it, perhaps this may explain the stupidity at the Taipei Times. They are sitting somewhere in Taipei, and every point south of them is the “south Pacific.”
I have in this thread been quite critical of the Taipei Times. Yet I do also want to give them credit when credit is due, as I saw today—to my surprise—at a clothing shop in Xizhi: