WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Friday urged the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization to oppose China’s decision to unilaterally extend a flight route in the Taiwan Strait.
“This action places civilian aircraft dangerously close to Taiwan-administered airspace,” said the letter signed by Senators Gary Peters and Marsha Blackburn and Representative John Moolenaar, a Republican who chairs a House select committee on China and the panel’s ranking Democrat Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi.
They added that the “unilateral changes disregard international aviation procedures and ICAO’s own standards, which emphasize the importance of coordination and risk mitigation in shared airspace.”
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama )
