Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/11
By: Chiang Chin-yeh and Kuan-lin Liu

Washington, May 10 (CNA) U.S. Congressman Ted Yoho (R-FL), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, wrote a letter to American airline carriers on Thursday urging them to resist bowing down to pressure from Beijing and Chinese political correctness.

In his letter to Delta, American and United Airlines, Yoho addressed a recent letter China’s Civil Aviation Administration sent to foreign airlines asking them to list Taiwan as a province or region of China, under threat of penalties.

The congressman agreed with the White House, which on May 5 called those demands “Orwellian nonsense” in reference to George Orwell’s description of controlling governments in his literature, and pledged Congressional support of American companies against such threats.

“Congress will also stand behind U.S. companies that prudently refuse to be drafted into the CCP’s (Chinese Communist Party) political warfare against Taiwan,” Yoho wrote in his letter.    [FULL  STORY]