China shuts down Marriott website for a week after hotel chain listed Tibet and Hong Kong as ...
Chinese and American flags fly outside of a JW Marriott hotel in Beijing - AP/ China has shut down Marriott’s local website and mobile phone app after the hotel chain listed Hong Kong and Tibet as countries in an online survey. Despite a series of apologies and a bizarre clarification that it does not support 'separatism' Marriott has become the latest international company to be punished by Beijing for apparently disrespecting China’s sovereignty. In a move which is clearly intended to target bookings of the US hotel giant, authorities in ...
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