China Airlines erases logo from wreckage

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Last week, shortly after one of its planes exploded (thankfully, no one was killed), China Airlines covered up its logo on the charred fuselage with a fresh coat of white paint. Talk about protecting the image of your brand: “Our plane? No way! There’s no logo! That could be an Aer Lingus jet!” At first, I thought this seemed par for the course with the Communist People’s Republic of China. But this airline’s from the “other” Republic of China, aka Taiwan,

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