Qantas bows again

[Black Orchid]

IT’S official. Qantas has caved to pressure from Beijing.

The Australian airline has confirmed it plans to change its website to refer to Taiwan as a Chinese territory, as opposed to an independent nation.

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, in a move the White House described as “Orwellian”.

Speaking at the International Air Transport Association annual meeting in Sydney yesterday, Qantas chief executive officer Alan Joyce confirmed the airline would be complying with the request.

“Our intention is to meet the requirements. It is just taking time to get there,” he told journalists.

In January this year, a Chinese regulator suspended Marriott International’s Chinese website and mobile app for a week after it listed four China-claimed territories — Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Tibet — as separate countries.

Delta Airlines also came under fire for listing Taiwan and Tibet as separate countries on its website.

China and Taiwan separated in 1949 after a civil war saw the Nationalists flee to the island.

Despite a shared cultural and linguistic heritage, the two sides have been governed separately ever since, but Chinese president Xi Jinping has recently moved to restrict the island country’s international influence.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/world-tr ... 55629e9f4d

Taiwan IS independent. Alan Joyce really needs to be sent packing.

[cods]

they have all the Aces black orchid.....they can even stop airlines from crossing their water.....its a dodgy place to be....

I met a girl well she stayed with me actually... from Hong Kong it wasnt all that long after the Brits handed them over...

and she said everyone was very happy about the union....I asked her if she thought of herself as Hong Kong or Chinese and she brushed it aside saying Chinese Hong Kong.....most of the time she only talked about Hong Kong...how great it was......been a bit of water flow under the bridge since then....

but it looks to me like CHina is going backwards they like the power that goes with control....and if they can make everyone else conform....

my daughter has just come back from China did you know the govt controls the airconditioning???...it only comes on at certain times....

[Black Orchid]

my daughter has just come back from China did you know the govt controls the airconditioning???...it only comes on at certain times....

I didn't know that but I am not surprised. The government controls everything there. The Chinese are just a bunch of slave puppets.

[cods]

she said everyone has a job....the place is so clean...you know what they say about busy hands.. .they probably dont have a clue whats going on around them..massive buildings..... cars odds and even days..lol...I think its all very controlled

[Neferti]

she said everyone has a job....the place is so clean...you know what they say about busy hands.. .they probably dont have a clue whats going on around them..massive buildings..... cars odds and even days..lol...I think its all very controlled

And they are all HAPPY. A job, a family and food on the table. What more do you want?

[Super Nova]

she said everyone has a job....the place is so clean...you know what they say about busy hands.. .they probably dont have a clue whats going on around them..massive buildings..... cars odds and even days..lol...I think its all very controlled

And they are all HAPPY. A job, a family and food on the table. What more do you want?

Freedom.

My dog has all this "all HAPPY. A job, a family and food on the table."

[Black Orchid]

The Government couldn't have had a more appropriate week for the release of the report from the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security, which has examined its legislation to counter foreign interference.

Bipartisan agreement in the report, tabled Thursday, on the 60 recommendations, covering minor and more substantive amendments, has paved the way for a bill that has infuriated Chinese authorities to clear Parliament within weeks.

A couple of current instances have highlighted how China engages in unsubtle pressure.

Qantas confirmed it would bow to China over how the carrier refers to Taiwan in its advertising and on its website. This followed a demand to three dozen airlines that they make clear that Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau are part of China.

The Government was understanding of Qantas's position, accepting it had little choice.

On a very different front, former foreign minister Bob Carr, an outspoken friend of China, who heads the Australia China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney, was unable to get visas for journalists (including from Fairfax and News Corp) to go on one of the sponsored visits to China he hosts.

Mr Carr says "the assumption is that [this] is part of the freeze China is applying to bilateral visits" — a freeze that has hit ministers.

Then there is the much-publicised controversy about Facebook sharing user data with, among many companies, several Chinese ones including Huawei, a telecommunications-equipment giant that the Australian Government has not permitted to tender for National Broadband Network contracts.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-08/c ... ty/9848116

Why is our government afraid to stand up to China? The US could blast them out of existence.

[Black Orchid]

she said everyone has a job....the place is so clean...you know what they say about busy hands.. .they probably dont have a clue whats going on around them..massive buildings..... cars odds and even days..lol...I think its all very controlled

And they are all HAPPY. A job, a family and food on the table. What more do you want?

Freedom.

My dog has all this "all HAPPY. A job, a family and food on the table."

Most of them are not happy. They are puppets and the ones who are able have left in droves. They are told to say they are happy but that does not make it so.

[cods]

she said everyone has a job....the place is so clean...you know what they say about busy hands.. .they probably dont have a clue whats going on around them..massive buildings..... cars odds and even days..lol...I think its all very controlled

And they are all HAPPY. A job, a family and food on the table. What more do you want?

Freedom.

My dog has all this "all HAPPY. A job, a family and food on the table."

and the point you are making????????

[cods]

she said everyone has a job....the place is so clean...you know what they say about busy hands.. .they probably dont have a clue whats going on around them..massive buildings..... cars odds and even days..lol...I think its all very controlled

And they are all HAPPY. A job, a family and food on the table. What more do you want?

Freedom.

My dog has all this "all HAPPY. A job, a family and food on the table."

Most of them are not happy. They are puppets and the ones who are able have left in droves. They are told to say they are happy but that does not make it so.

have you been there BO??>.. yes they do live with a certain amount of fear no doubt about that....but my daughter just told me what she saw with her own eyes.......as for the lass that stayed with me she was very very pro China....was born and still lived in Hong Kong....when it was under British rule....she didnt have to pretend for my sake as she came over for a wedding....

bo if you have never had anything and that includes FOS then you dont miss it.......

a lot of people leave here as well... the last place I would go to live is America...but yet an awful lot thinks its the best place on earth....