Livid China asserts right over Taiwan as US allows diplomatic visits there

Spat comes shortly after high-level US delegation returned from two days in Beijing with little to show for talks aimed at averting a trade war between the world's two biggest economies

China isn’t backing down after the White House called an order for airlines to stop referring to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as countries “Orwellian nonsense.”

The foreign ministry in Beijing said Monday that all three places “are indivisible parts of China.” Hong Kong and Macau answer to Beijing, despite having different currencies, separate financial systems and elected legislators, while Taiwan is a democracy that has resisted rule by the mainland.

“Regardless of what the US will say or do, it will not change the fact that there is only one China in the world,” spokesman Geng Shuang told a