Cybersecurity

China Steps Up Policing of Multinationals Over Sovereignty

Delta apologizes to China for listing Tibet, Taiwan as nations
China says Zara website also lists territories incorrectly

KATHMANDU, NEPAL - MAY 19: Tibetan prayer flags blow in the wind from the rooftop of the Keydong Thuk-Che Choling Monastery on May 19, 2003 in Kathmandu, Nepal. 88 nuns live in the nunnery school in a Tibetan neighborhood of the city. Buddhist nuns face the same discrimination that affects all women in Nepal. Out of all the Buddhist nuns in Nepal, only a small fraction are able to live in nunneries, where they may receive limited education in learning english and reading and reciting Tibetan scriptures. They are often the only females from their villages with any education at all since Nepal has a severely low female literacy rate. Many Buddhist monks and nuns perished in the turbulent years following the 1959 Chinese takeover of Tibet. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Photographer: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

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By Bloomberg News

January 12, 2018 at 12:26 PM UTC

Updated on

January 12, 2018 at 8:14 PM UTC

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China is stepping up its policing of international companies such as Inditex SA-owned Zara and Delta Air Lines Inc. and demanding they respect the government’s position on long-standing territorial disputes from Taiwan to Tibet.

The Cyber Administration Office in Shanghai on Friday said Zara listed Taiwan, an island that China claims as its own, as a separate country on its website. On the same day, China’s Civil Aviation Administration summoned executives of Delta as the carrier on its website listed Taiwan and Tibet, located in western China, as nations. The companies were asked to change the “illegal” contents.