China Shuts Down Marriott Website For Disrespecting Chinese Sovereignty

Well this is going to be costly. China will be blocking Marriott’s website and mobile app for the next week as punishment for what the world’s largest hotel chain has done. What horrible act did Marriott commit to deserve this punishment? In a Mandarin language questionnaire that they sent to customers earlier in the week, they listed Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan as separate countries, which China views as disrespecting Chinese sovereignty.

Per Reuters, a Marriott spokesperson issued the following statement through the company’s official Weibo account:

“Marriott International respects Chinese sovereignty and its territorial integrity…We sincerely apologize for any actions that led to misunderstanding on the aforementioned stance.”

The Chinese government is asking Marriott to “take down all relevant content, conduct a thorough check on all contents it posted on its website and online application to prevent anything similar, and address the public’s concern in a timely fashion to eliminate a negative impact.”

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Kent Guest

Ben, Can't believe this, but Hip Hip Hooray for Marriott, they really got it right this time about Tibet and our hats are off to them. They took the small pain of their website being down for a week, but they really made a great statement that Tibet is and should be independent or at least still be able to remain a Tibetan country rather than genocide of its people. God is watching over that area. Kent

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Charles S Member

@Winslow I don't have the energy to argue anymore with you. Your comparisons are very very weak. You shouldn't have to justify your nations actions by pointing out flaws in others. My point was the US Military is not used to quell the local population. You are talking about police action. You bring up Ferguson but at no point did police fire into an unarmed crowd. In addition the Ferguson crowd started to violence. But no matter what you say and what you quote nothing will change your governments actions in the Spring of 1989 when your military fired on its own civilians. Now while you claim only a couple of hundred killed (already more than any police action in the US) you actually killed 1000s. You took political prisoners and purged them too. I don't have time to argue with someone who wants to compare that with Ferguson case there is 0 no comparison. And please don't try to say what about the Native Americans because that's like saying what about the Dzungar genocide

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Winslow Guest

@BigG 1. It does not justify oppression from either of the country, yet the most of the people carry the impression of Chinese government being more evil. The interesting part of this is that we believe so deeply in “free choices”, yet we barely notice that the choices we are given can be manipulated. You may think that you could choose to read articles from both sides of the argument, yet most of the news you read are negative about China. The positive or unpopular opinions among a certain country or region may never be shown by your Google search results due to its preference of higher traffic websites. Similarly, news media tend not to write about unpopular opinions due to its dire need of clicks and attention. https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3 2. It is sad that after your repeated visits to Hong Kong and China, you still try to dehumanize people living in those countries, to an extent that, any person with opposing political opinion about China is considered a brainwashed Chinese citizen by you. On another note however, it is indeed very amusing reading your stereotypical ideas, and thanks to you, I had a good laugh reading your post.

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Jung Guest

Agree @ Andy, Far East 101 HK Macau should under Special Administrative Region of China , Tibet as autonomous region of China ,Then There’s Mainland China , PRC , then cross the strait there’s Taiwan, ROC. Heck just list them all as Greater China to shut the hell up on them monkies

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BigG Guest

I blame all of this on climate change and I'am sick of Uncle Sam keeping me down.

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