Adding to the “Framework doesn’t know how countries work” issue: I’m in Singapore, not even far from Taiwan. Go and check what happens if you want to express interest for that country on the locales page:
Now there’s two issues with this:
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I question the design decision to localize the list of countries, on an English website. If I read English, if the site is a survey in English, I probably want to select a country … in English (and FWIW: English isn’t my native language)
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The real issue is that, no, Singapore most CERTAINLY isn’t Chinese or in China or whatever. The name of the country is Singapore (or Singapura if you must), the official language is Malay (not Chinese) and … everyone uses English anyway. Listing Singapore in Chinese is about as silly as listing the USA in Thai (and FWIW: I’m not a Singaporean either, so this isn’t a patriotic thing or whatever).
I’m confused why it’s so hard to have a dropdown list of (English) country names? That’s not a difficult dataset, nor hard to obtain.