Taipei is expected to be listed as the destination instead of Taiwan.
Major U. S. airlines are expected to alter how they refer to Taiwan on their websites as they face a Wednesday deadline from the Chinese government to avoid retaliation, a U. S. official told POLITICO.
The airlines are expected to list the city of Taipei as a destination without referring to the place where it is located, the official said. The Chinese government has demanded that airlines describe it as part of China, not Taiwan.
Similar changes are expected for Hong Kong and Macau, which are autonomous territories of China. China doesn’t recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation.
The State Department notified the Chinese government late Monday, the official said. It’s unclear whether the changes will satisfy China’s demands, which the White House criticized in May as « Orwellian nonsense.
