fancy a stay at the beijing marriott don't even try looking for the hotel's website it's been shut down by the chinese government marriott's offense the company has listed taiwan tibet hong kong and macau a separate countries on its website while the latter three are indeed part of china taiwan's international status is more complex with many countries recognizing the island as a sovereign state china's take on the issue is clear. i want to stress that hong kong macau taiwan and tibet old part of china this is not objective fact in the consensus of the international community we welcome foreign companies to come to china and invest in companies. at the same time the companies that come to china should respect china's sovereignty and territorial integrity abide by china's laws and respect the feelings of the chinese people this is the minimum requirement of any company going to another country to carry out business and investment. marriott meanwhile has apologized on its website writing they respect china's sovereignty and territorial integrity the hotel operator is only one of several c

fancy a stay in the beijing marriott well don't even try looking for the hotel's website it's been shut down by the government for two days now chinese authorities have been cracking down on u.s. firms that appear to question china's territorial sovereignty the hotel chain says it was a simple error. marriott's offense the company had listed taiwan tibet hong kong and macau a separate countries on its website while the latter three are indeed part of china taiwan's international status is more complex with many countries recognizing the island as a sovereign state china's take on the issue is clear. i want to stress that hong kong macau taiwan and tibet all part of china there is no objective fact in the consensus of the international community we welcome foreign companies to come to china and invest in companies. at the same time the companies that come to china should respect china's sovereignty and territorial integrity abide by china's laws and respect the feelings of the chinese people this is the minimum requirement of any company going to another country to carry out business and

based marriott hotel chain which is apologize for referring to tibet taiwan hong kong and macau a separate country is in an online survey adrian brown is in beijing. well marriott's customer loyalty program has found itself at the center of assortment with china's government its blunder was to categorize tibet taiwan hong kong and macau as countries this happened in a customer survey and of course the inevitable firestorm has now happened on social media the gaffe was identified by chinese netizens and some of those medicines and are calling on people to boycott the marriott hotel chain one newspaper in central china even says that marriott should be kicked out of the country now the hotel has apologized repeatedly it says that an investigation has now begun and it denies supporting separatist sentiment in china but the company is still being punished the marriott website and chinese up has been closed for a week to make matters worse the friends of tibet group put a post on twitter praising marriott for recognizing tibet as a country and that posed received a like from someone in the marriott group now on friday china's foreign ministry waded in

the warning comes after the marriott hotel chain apologize for referring to debate to de baets taiwan hong kong and macau as separate countries brown has a story from beijing. well marriott's customer loyalty program has found itself at the center of a sovereignty route with china's government its blunder was to categorize tibet taiwan hong kong and macau as countries this happened in a customer survey and of course the inevitable firestorm has now happened on social media the gaffe was identified by chinese netizens and some of those medicines and are calling on people to boycott the marriott hotel chain one newspaper in central china even says that marriott should be kicked out of the country now the hotel has apologized repeatedly it says that an investigation has now begun and it denies supporting separatist sentiment in china but the company is still being punished the marriott website and chinese up has been closed for a week to make matters worse the friends of tibet group put a post on twitter praising marriott for recognizing tibet as a country and that posed received a like from someone in the marriott group now on friday china's foreign ministry

next is our delta and marriott international these are just some of the companies that have come into the cross as of abilities in beijing. this for recognizing tibet and taiwan as independent countries on their websites earlier this week hotel chain marriott international emailed a global survey to their loyalty members. which included macau hong kong and taiwan as countries. the chinese foreign ministry says foreign firms need to respect china's sovereignty. trade growth in china cooled off in the month of december it could signal weaker global and domestic dimond total exports last year rose seven point nine percent while imports were up fifteen point nine percent. china's trade surplus with the united states grew to just overr twowo hundred and seventy five billion dollar. beijing has come under pressure from the united states president for the trade imbalance on china street with north korea i mean while shrank fifty percent in the month of december. as governments tightened sanctions imposed on your own yeah. saudi arabia is holding its first ever motor show specifically targeting women it comes a few months off to