Such things will never stop being utterly absurd to me. More often than not it seems that Taiwan is alone (particularly interesting was WHO's antics with covid-19 last year), and everybody plays pretend to please the CCP, and it's so obvious these statements are not well-intentioned, except for the purpose of profits (or political reasons). Pampering an authoritarian government.
Remember when Obama’s State Department made the Red Dawn remake people switch the antagonist from China to North Korea? Cena was probably just doing what our government was told to make him do by China.
Would love to learn how this works behind the scenes. Are Chinese officials giving the Studio a deadline for this kind apology? Or is this proactive self-censorship triggered solely by social media?
at the risk of overloading on -ism terminology, actions like John Cena have demonstrated that one can profit from criticizing non-totalitarianistic business climate while refraining from doing so within a totalitarianistic ones.<p>Let’s hope that a non-totalitarianistic society can withstand such criticisms without compromising or negotiating its own value away in favor of totalitarianistic ones.<p>A strange but harrowing (yet narrowing) position for corporate globalists (and their cohorts) to wiggle within.
> “Please say ‘Taiwan is part of China’ in Chinese. Otherwise, we will not accept your apology,” one Weibo user responded in a comment that was liked thousands of times.
Even Taiwanese Government does not call Taiwan as a country, rather they call themselves as Republic of China and even claims all of the mainlands territory and citizenry as their own. Taiwanese themselves have not made up their mind till now officially on sovereignty.