By David Shepardson, Ben Blanchard
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – The three biggest U.S. airlines changed how they refer to self-ruled Taiwan on their websites to avoid Chinese penalties ahead of a Wednesday deadline – revisions Beijing described as “positive developments.”
Earlier this year, China demanded that foreign firms, and airlines in particular, not refer to Taiwan as a non-Chinese territory on their websites. The White House in May slammed the demand as “Orwellian nonsense.”