SHANGHAI—Chinese social media users directed their fury at online retailer Amazon.com on Aug. 15, after discovering T-shirts on its website sporting slogans that support anti-government protesters in Hong Kong.
The hashtag “Amazon T-Shirts” became the fourth-top trending topic on China’s Twitter-like Weibo on Wednesday in the latest backlash for an overseas company that broached matters regarding Hong Kong’s territorial status. The Chinese regime has been more assertive in its territorial claims and how it expects foreign companies doing businesses in China to describe them.
