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Marriott Offends China – Take 1
It was triggered when Marriott sent out a customer survey which listed Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau as separate countries. Chinese ‘netizens’ and the government took serious offence and retaliated by shutting down Marriott’s Chinese website and the mobile app, for a week!!
Marriott was quick to apologize and took to the Chinese social media platform Weibo, to say;
we will absolutely not support any separatist organization that will undermine China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Marriott Offends China – Take 2
Turns out while Marriott was doing its best to calm the situation and put out the fire via Weibo, their actions on Twitter were gaining further notoriety – The official Marriott Rewards handle on twitter was busy ‘liking’ posts by ‘@friendsoftibet’. The post by ‘Friends of Tibet’ was congratulating Marriott International for listing Tibet as a country. And Marriott Rewards ‘liked it’ – Yikes – this is more than “shooting yourself in the foot”.
Screenshot by @blingSINGH
Yet again, the backlash was severe with several twitter members calling out Marriott’s hypocrisy – for apologizing on Weibo but acting differently on Twitter. And yet again, Marriott was forced to put out an apology, this time on Twitter.
Screenshot by @blingSINGH
It is hard to ascertain the exact timeline of how things aligned between Weibo apology and the Twitter likes, but regardless it shows Marriott in a very bad light. At least for Chinese citizens across the world, and of course the Chinese government.
My Take
This.Is.Bad.
7 comments
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Anshul: the hypocrites are the rulers of the PRC! Marriott should NEVER have apologized to that corrupt crony country called “China”. The PRC is run by corrupt thugs that sanction intellectual property theft, regularly use forced convict labor, restrict freedom of speech, suppress freedom of thought, torture political prisoners, encroach on neighboring countries, etc. I hope Trump continues to put the squeeze on their government tyrants like that thug Xi Jin Ping and raise the tariffs that the sorely deserve for dumping their goods on the U.S. and other law abiding countries. I actually lived for several years under that police state system. They want to take over Taiwan (a democratic country), and steal more territory from all their neighbors. They are a PREDATORY state. We need to screw them back for their litany of crimes against humanity.
hopefully we will see fewer mainlanders staying at Marriotts! Hurray!
it’s only bad for pathetic mainland chinese losers who insist on forcing their political views onto others.
I hear you but **sidesteps a minefield** 😉
yes, but i like how the US do it better. invade the mid east with force. and forcibly remove leader.
The pro-use chemical weapons on your own people crowd chimes in. Nice warped view of moral authority you have there.