TAIPEI, Taiwan -- TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan has cancelled a planned Taipei concert by a Chinese rapper after he used the insulting term “Taipei, China” in promotional materials.

Wang Yitai’s scheduled September 14 concert has been canceled, and the performer from the southwestern city of Chengdu has been banned from the island, the Taiwanese government’s Mainland Affairs Council announced late Sunday.

The term is isolating because it refers to Taipei, the island's capital, as a Chinese city under Beijing’s control, reflecting the government’s stance on eventually annexing Taiwan by force if necessary and belittling the island’s vibrant democracy.

Relatively unknown outside China, Wang is signed to a rap label in Chengdu, a city with a vibrant arts scene that has become renowned for its diverse performers and venues. It's also home to the rap group CD Rev, which gained international notoriety for their hard-line nationalist tracks, including songs that compare Taiwan to the semi-autonomous Chinese city Hong Kong and made offensive and misogynistic remarks about former President Tsai Ing-wen.

China consistently prohibits Taiwanese artists, many of whom are popular on the mainland, for any indication of support for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, which favors the island’s de facto independence from China.

Taiwan regularly welcomes Chinese artists and its government views musical interactions favorably. However, the Mainland Affairs Council has stated that “cross-strait exchanges should be conducted with mutual respect and reciprocity. Any publications or promotions that disparage Taiwan’s status will not be tolerated."

While Taiwan’s official name is the Republic of China, a legacy from the government that relocated to the island in 1950 during the civil war, it is commonly known as Taiwan. The island competes in the Olympics as “Chinese Taipei” to appease Beijing, whose influence has dwindled the island's number of formal diplomatic allies to just 12.