The Hill
Date: 05/05/18
By: Max Greenwood

The White House lashed out at China on Saturday after the country’s aviation authority sent letters to several major airlines scolding them for referring to Taiwan as a country.

“This is Orwellian nonsense and part of a growing trend by the Chinese Communist Party to impose its political views on American citizens and private companies,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

Sanders also vowed that “China’s efforts to export its censorship and political correctness to Americans and the rest of the free world will be resisted.”

“The United States strongly objects to China’s attempts to compel private firms to use specific language of a political nature in their publicly available content,” she said.    [FULL  STORY]