News and notes from around the interweb:
- LAX American Express Centurion lounge gets closer to opening: they’re hiring.
- China pressures the Stockholm Sheraton to kick out a Taiwanese event. They’ve hosted Taiwan’s National Day celebrations but now China is flexing muscles, since Taiwan isn’t a separate country in their view Taiwan cannot have a National Day – even in Sweden – and businesses face consequences for defying China. (HT: @stephenw_)
It’s almost like the way the Sheraton is hostage to the Chinese government, they’re suffering Stockholm Syndrome?
- Customs officer demands journalist admit they ‘write propoganda’ before permitting them to re-enter the United States.
Copyright: andreyuu / 123RF Stock Photo - Are groups booking blocks of rooms at Trump hotels and not staying in them? (HT: Joe Brancatelli)
- Startup wants to create an aftermarket in rewards currencies but in the U.S. at least the law is on the side of issuers who wish to control their own currencies.
The Stockholm Sheraton should also invite Tibetans in exile to come and celebrate a National Day of their own. (And ban PRC government and party officials from staying there.)
Highly disturbing stuff about customs. The agent should be fired at a minimum. A free press is crucial to a free society. Impeding, bullying, humiliating, or threatening the exercise of a free press is dangerous at best, a violation of constitutional freedoms at worst. It is quite literally against everything our nation stands for.
Can you imagine them hassling bliggers?…. “Admit you write corporate shrill, blow all the good deals, and are in it only to sell credit cards “ and then we will let you come home.
Sheratan is owned by Marriott so I guess they didnt want a repeat. https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/01/11/whats-an-easy-way-to-miff-china-ask-marriott.html#targetText=In%20early%202016%2C%20Marriott%20outdueled,the%20world's%20largest%20hotel%20company.
The First Amendment is under assault, really from both sides in our polarized political world. One side harasses journalists who are willing to challenge the President; the other inflicts speech codes and boycotts that seek to inhibit any politically incorrect talk. The First Amendment is a big deterrent to wannabe authoritarians on all sides, and we need to champion it.
What’s wrong with China? Thanks for posting this otherwise it wouldn’t be covered by main stream media. Gary you keep write whatever you want to write without worry Chinese trolls army.
You’ve missed the correct definition of Stockholm Syndrome, unless the Stockholm Sheraton is sympathetic to the Chinese Govt…
“Stockholm syndrome is a condition which causes hostages to develop a psychological alliance with their captors during captivity.”