CNN
Date: July 24, 2018
By: Daniel Shane

Big US airlines could soon hit political turbulence in China.

Major carriers including United (UAL), American (AAL) and Delta (DAL) are among those that were given a Wednesday deadline by Beijing to change how their global websites refer to Taiwan.

The showdown has been looming for months. The Chinese government wrote to more than 40 international airlines earlier this year demanding they remove from their websites any information that suggests Taiwan is not part of China.

Many airlines, such as Australia’s Qantas (QABSY), Air Canada (ACDVF) and Air India, have already changed their websites. Others, including the big American airlines, have not.

China and Taiwan have been governed separately since 1949 following the Communist victory on the mainland after a civil war, although a shared cultural and linguistic heritage mostly endures.    [FULL  STORY]