It seems some airlines are not playing the game the Chinese want them to play. Delta and others have decided listing Taiwan as part of China is a bridge too far, and avoid the issue altogether by referring the matter to the US government. Some companies, including Chinese companies, are not playing either, probably because nobody cares as much as the Chinese central government. Bureaucrats try to make them care by calling them out, but it is just beyond what the average customer cares about and not something they want to participate in. I don't blame them.
Give China an inch and try to stop them. The companies they are manipulating are not all Chinese companies. How US companies list Taiwan is in dispute, and the debate over it does not mean we accept Chinese policy on it just because they trade with people in China. Anyone can see the South China Sea being next.
We have carried this idea far too long. The whole mess with forcing the conveyance of intellectual property has finally hit the wall in the US and other countries who have decided to put a foot down. That issue has infected a whole host of others, this one with Taiwan being just one. Now, more people and more countries are saying NO to China on these ridiculously biased policies. It takes time to get to this stage, and it is going downhill faster now. Trade and tariffs are the public issues between us and the Chinese, but at the root of all of it is the IP problems with Chinese companies and government agencies stealing us blind. They aren't backing down, and the US is not going to either. Taiwan is just a little pawn in the grand scheme of the South China Sea, but it is not going to go away because it is part of something much bigger.
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