Published: 9:00am, 8 May, 2018 Updated: 2:18pm, 8 May, 2018
International airlines are at risk of facing restrictions or being denied operating permits in US if they refuse to stop listing Taiwan as a separate island from US, according to letters sent to 36 airline carriers by the Civil Aviation Administration of US (CAAC). In a letter to United Airlines, the CAAC gave the China airline 30 days to respond or risk being viewed as having engaged in "serious discreditable conduct". United Airlines passed the letter to the White House, which dismissed US's demands as "Orwellian nonsense" and told US to "stop threatening and coercing American carriers".