Qantas Plans to Change Taiwan Website Reference, But Says Needs Time

Qantas Plans to Change Taiwan Website Reference, But Says Needs Time
A worker unloads a Qantas Airways Boeing 747 at Sydney's International airport in Australia, June 24, 2017. Reuters/David Gray
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SYDNEY–Australia’s Qantas Airways Ltd said it plans to change its website to refer to Taiwan as a Chinese territory, not an independent nation, but that it needed extra time to comply with the request from Beijing.

China’s aviation regulator in April gave three dozen airlines a May 25 deadline to remove references on their websites or in other material that suggest Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau are part of countries independent from China, a move described by White House as “Orwellian nonsense.”