Qantas is the first Australian company to respond deferentially to Beijing’s campaign targeting businesses
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/16
By: Duncan DeAeth,Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Australian airline Qantas has bowed to pressure from
Qantas Airlines Airbus A380 (By Wikimedia Commons)
Beijing to change the designation of Taiwan on their website.
After the past week of Chinese complaints to various corporations over how they class Taiwan and other regions on the web or in company materials, the Australian airline Qantas is the most recent to succumb to China’s browbeating campaign for influence.
On Jan.16, the company released a statement; “Due to an oversight, some Chinese territories were incorrectly listed as countries on parts of our website. We are correcting this error.”
China issued a warning to the company last week, when China began its campaign of harassing companies that list Taiwan as a country.
