Taiwan’s foreign minister has called for international support after a Chinese publication sought to name and shame foreign companies that do not acknowledge Taiwan as part of China.
A Chinese academic study of hundreds of the world’s largest companies operating in China named 66 companies that it said “misidentified” Taiwan, in a move that threatens to reignite international tension over how global corporates refer to Taiwan.
The publication’s list of companies — which included US tech giants Apple and Amazon as well as German industrial Siemens — has been reported by China’s state media and has prompted calls by a Communist party-linked news outlet for stronger oversight by Chinese authorities.