China’s internet regulator has accused hotel group Marriott International of breaking Chinese law and ordered it to close its Chinese website and online booking applications for a week after the company listed Taiwan as a country in some online forms.
The Shanghai office of China’s cyberspace administration, the internet regulator, said in an online post on Thursday that Marriott’s listing of Taiwan as a country had “seriously violated national laws and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people”.
Marriott, which operates more than 120 hotels in China, said that it “respects the integrity of Chinese territory” in a post on Sina Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter.