Taipei, Feb. 1 (CNA) Taiwan's Foreign Ministry has instructed its representative office in Atlanta to demand a correction from delivery services provider FedEx over its "inappropriate" designation of Taiwan as "Taiwan, China" on its website.
"The company has not concretely responded to us yet, but the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Atlanta will continue to negotiate with FedEx to correct the erroneous designation," Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) spokeswoman Joanne Ou said in a statement Saturday.
Several netizens noticed on Friday that FedEx has designated Taiwan as "Taiwan, China" on its drop-down menu in the sender section and on its language menu at the bottom of the website.
One netizen said in an internet forum that he used the FedEx website in early January, and the designation was still "Taiwan" at the time.
"The MOFA will continue to monitor instances that downgrade Taiwan's status and will actively demand corrections from related institutions," Ou said.
Similar incidents happened in 2018 when Beijing wrote to more than 40 foreign carriers, demanding that they designate Taiwan as part of China or face repercussions, a request the airlines eventually complied with in different ways.
Beijing claims Taiwan as part of its territory and objects to symbols or names that suggest Taiwan is independent from China.
