美国三大航空公司: 台湾, 中国 都不见了

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(1) 锺广政, 「欧威尔式胡言乱语」限期到！「台湾」消失了「中国」也不见了. RFA, July 25, 2018 (table)
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/ne ... encoding=simplified
("中国今年4月要求全球的航空公司，在网页上更改「台湾」名称为「中国台湾」，白宫直斥是「欧威尔式胡言乱语」。改名限期周三（25日）届满，香港的国泰航空官网，将台湾显示为「中国台湾」；美国三大航空公司的官网，则列出「台北」的机场代码 [TPE] 和「台北」这座城市，不见了「台湾」两字，也没有跟从中方要求改为「中国台湾」。* * * [台] 行政院承认台湾能反制筹码不多。美国国务院重申反对立场没有改变")

(2) Heather Nauert (Spokesperson), Department Press Briefing. US Department of State, July 24, 2018

the following is all there is about the discourse over Taiwan and China:

"MS NAUERT: Yeah. Hey, Nick. I’m going to try to get around to as many people as possible (inaudible). Hi, Nick.

"QUESTION: On China. U.S. airlines are saying they are going to comply with this Chinese request to change how they refer to Taiwan. Some of them are saying that --

"MS NAUERT: They have said that they would? I haven’t seen that development.

"QUESTION: And they’re sort of laying the blame with the State Department, saying that this was the result of failed negotiations between State and the Chinese Government to come up with a solution. State Department had said earlier that it opposed this Chinese demand. Do you have any update?

"MS NAUERT: Oh, we would oppose a government’s demand on private corporations that private corporations label something the way that the government demands it to do that. I was not aware that the companies said that they would fold to the Chinese Government, so I would just refer you back to those American companies.

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鄭崇生, 美航空公司網站改台灣名稱 各有做法. 中央社, July 25, 2018
http://www.cna.com.tw/news/firstnews/201807250117-1.aspx

Quote:

"隨著期限的接近，美東時間24日傍晚約10時30分，查詢美國多家航空公司官網，僅美國航空更改官網內容對台灣的說明。 美國航空在出發地或目的地的選項輸入英文的台灣時，僅出現「高雄國際機場」及「桃園國際機場」的字樣與機場英文代碼KHH及TPE，而原本會在機場名稱後加註台灣的英文簡寫TW，已經不見。

"事實上，美國多個航空公司的官網原本訂票系統中並無涉政治表述，如AA、聯合航空與達美航空都僅標註「出發地」與「目的地」，而非使用「國家」或「地區」。  截至發稿時間為止，包括聯合航空與達美航空的官網，仍維持對台灣多個機場的原有表述，也就是機場名稱與代號後，仍有加註台灣的英文簡寫TW。

Note: It is 7 pm EDT, Wednesday, July 25, 2018. Google timed this report "16 hours ago." As of now, 聯合航空與達美航空 )United and Delta) has deleted "TW" (as well as "CN."