LETTER OF DEMANDS: Beijing has warned two US air carriers against referring to Taiwan as a nation, saying it would refer them to authorities if they did not comply
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 29, 2018
By: Sherry Hsiao / Staff writer, with CNA
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the Chinese Ministry of Foreign
Taiwan’s representative office in Jordan, right, is pictured on March 31, 2013.
Photo: CNA
Affairs’ “overbearing use of political power” to coarsely interfere with the behavior of private businesses and the operations of international corporations, ministry spokesperson Andrew Lee (李憲章) said in Taipei yesterday.
The statement came in response to a report that China warned US airlines against referring to Taiwan as an independent nation.
“The Civil Aviation Administration of China has sent a letter to United Airlines and American Airlines demanding that their global operations follow China’s restrictions against ‘separatism,’ meaning that any references to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as countries independent from China must be removed,” Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine reported on Friday. “The strongly worded letter demands that all public-facing content, across the world, must follow ‘Chinese law.’” [FULL STORY]