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US Condemns China for Forcing Airlines to Use Beijing’s Language of Sovereignty
Reuters ^ | 5/5/2018

Posted on 05/06/2018 12:03:09 PM PDT by cba123

WASHINGTON—The White House on May 5 sharply criticized China‘s efforts to force foreign airlines to change how they refer to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, labeling China‘s latest effort to police language describing the politically sensitive territories as “Orwellian nonsense.”

Amid an escalating fight over China‘s trade surplus with the United States, the White House said China‘s Civil Aviation Administration sent a letter to 36 foreign air carriers, including a number of U.S. carriers, demanding changes.

The carriers were told to remove references on their websites or in other material that suggests Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau are part of countries independent from China, U.S. and airline officials said.

(please see full article at the link)

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: america; china; trade
https://www.dailyrepublic.com/wires/trump-teams-talks-in-china-raise-questions-and-fears-of-a-trade-war/comment-page-1/

And this additional article, describes:

"WASHINGTON — Even by President Donald Trump’s unpredictable and bare-knuckles style of negotiating, his economic team’s visit to Beijing in recent days to confront China on trade was both bewildering and, for many in both countries and beyond, worrisome."

That article is titled "Trump team’s talks in China raise questions and fears of a trade war"

1 posted on 05/06/2018 12:03:09 PM PDT by cba123
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To: cba123

https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-regime-threatens-to-block-foreign-airline-websites-white-house-says-will-resist-regimes-political-correctness_2515143.html


2 posted on 05/06/2018 12:05:57 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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“For the Trump administration, the reticence could also reflect the internal division among Trump’s top economic and trade officials. Mnuchin, whom the White House statement said led the delegation, and Ross are thought to be more pragmatic. Lighthizer and trade adviser Peter Navarro, a China hawk, have been pushing a harder protectionist line against a country they regard as out to supplant American economic power.”


“Pragmatic” is the LA Times’s word for dovish, wheres “harder protectionistic” would seem to be the actual pragmatic stance, in the sense of trying to obtain results for American industry and workers alike.


3 posted on 05/06/2018 12:15:43 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.)
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To: cba123

Reuters again!

Trash...


4 posted on 05/06/2018 12:45:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: cba123

Can’t commend the Trump administration enough!

Such a clear statement is an example of draining the swamp.


5 posted on 05/06/2018 1:27:27 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: cba123

Easy enough, stop flying to China, fixed. I believe it would take about 3 days for them to reconsider.


6 posted on 05/06/2018 1:38:46 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: cba123

I think we should tell our airlines to stop flying to China.

We should cut China off from any economic access to the United States. Not for economic reasons,. but for things like this — and slave labor, dumping, theft of intellectual property, trying to take over the South China Sea, threatening us and our allies, and so many more blatantly illegal activities.

Seize all their assets, stop their stuff from coming in, stop our stuff from going there. And build up the military. Use President Reagan’s Soviet strategy against the Chinese.

They need us more than we need them.


7 posted on 05/06/2018 2:35:04 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: TBP

Wow, are you living under a rock.

China exports around the world. While the USA is a major export destination, it actually only represents 11% of direct Chinese exports.

You know I live in China on a little area that lies between Macao and Hong Hong. Both Macao and Hong Kong are VERY Chinese. Don’t let CNN, MSNBC or Salon tell you different.

The same goes for Taiwan.

Look, I can well understand you angst directed at China. After all that Bill Clinton , and Obama did to our nation it’s great to have a target to direct our anger towards. But if so, then our anger and distraction will be directed at the wrong people.

All this talk about war, war war. All this talk about parkland and guns. All this talk about Muller investigations...

They are all distractions.

What really needs to happen is we take around 100 people. You know whom, and take them to the town squares and put a bullet in their heads. How these lizards can still get by and continue to mess things for the rest of me amazes me. Are not pissed off yet?

They have no “skin in the game”. They are insulated and isolated from the consequences of their actions.

So stop blaming China.

Go after the DNC, BLM, SJW, AntiFa, Soros, and the Clinton Crime Syndicate.


8 posted on 05/06/2018 4:25:00 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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The same goes for Taiwan.

It depends on what you mean by that, but I think I respectfully disagree. I go to Taiwan all the time and speak Mandarin pretty fluently. The people there all speak Mandarin and many speak the Taiwanese dialect based on, I think, the Fujian dialect. They celebrate the same holidays and generally eat the same food as they do on the mainland, although many young people want to celebrate Christmas as well, or at least have it as a day off. So they are culturally Chinese for the most part, but many young people adore Japan, and at least half of the population, whether descendants of 1949 refugees or not, thinks of itself as simply a different country from China. After almost 70 years of separation, having spent 30 years living in freedom and democracy, they simply don’t want reunification.

9 posted on 05/06/2018 4:34:21 PM PDT by untenured
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To: vannrox
Your solution is to take about 100 lizards and shoot them in the town square. Yes, I can believe you have been living in China for awhile. maybe a little too long.
10 posted on 05/06/2018 5:06:58 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: vannrox

China is the major geopolitical threat. They need us more than we need them. Let’s see if we can’t weaken their ability to threaten anyone. Because if we don’t, they will.


11 posted on 05/06/2018 5:07:17 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: vannrox

Taiwan is as much a part of Red China as we are a part of Britain.


12 posted on 05/07/2018 3:49:12 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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