tl;rd Marriot employee dealing with 1000s of tweets liked:
>Friends of Tibet congratulate global hotel chain #Marriott International for listing #Tibet as a country along with #HongKong and #Taiwan. pic.twitter.com/SXKWb20v3e
China freaked out and
>forced Marriott to suspend all online booking for a week at its nearly 300 Chinese hotels. A Chinese leader also demanded the company publicly apologize and “seriously deal with the people responsible,”
Maybe Marriott could quietly hire him back.
The Chinese are a bit touchy over what I think is the largest military invasion and land grab of the last century by area.