And yet another data point, this time for an English-speaking Games host.  The 1984 Official Report (p. 248) shows a definitive "Order of delegations" list (interestingly, including the time they took to pass the parade start point, from a minium of 5 seconds for Rwanda to 2:59 for the host USA) and "People's Republic of China" comes between Chile and Columbia, but "Chinese Taipei" comes between Syria and Tanzania.  So since we have sources in three different languages that have CHN sorted alphabetically under "China" and TPE sorted under "Taipei" (and no sources that show anything different), can we conclude that the "historically alphabetized" quote is verifiable?  —   ·