China Shrugs off Rival Taiwan's Slap Against its Airlines

China is responding coolly for now to an unusual blow against Chinese airlines from its political rival Taiwan . On Friday, Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration froze applications from China Eastern and Xiamen Air to add a combined 176 flights during the Lunar New Year holiday next month. Both airlines are based in China. The halt to those applications follows venting in Taipei over China’s unilateral launch January 4 of four new civilian aviation routes in the shared Taiwan...

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