The News Lens
Date: 2018/07/25
By: David Green
US airlines succumbed despite requests from the White House to resist Chinese pressure.
Updating at 5.10 p.m. with news reported by Reuters that all major American airlines requested to change their Taiwan designation by China have complied:
American Airlines Group led a cascade of dominoes as all three major U.S. airlines acquiesced to demands to change the way their websites refer to Taiwan late Tuesday, bowing to demands from Beijing.
The U.S. group had been the last of at least 36 foreign airlines to comply with demands to replace the designation of “Taiwan” with one that does not suggest that the country is independent from China.
American Airlines removed the country designation from Taiwan’s Taoyuan International and Songshan International airports, while Delta Airlines removed the country designation from city airports in both China and Taiwan.
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