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Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan (Chan Kong-sang) is a Hong Kong-born actor and action choreographer best known for his role as Detective Inspector Lee in Rush Hour. He is notable for bringing humour to martial arts movies and, over the course of appearing in more than 150 films, has become one of the only actors to perform all of his own stunts. Chan, an ambassador for UNICEF/UNAIDS, has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. An operatically trained vocalist, Chan is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of albums and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred.
Netizens mock Jackie Chan’s appointment to CPPCC
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Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan’s recent appointment to Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Beijing’s top advisory body, has generated a frenzy of discussions on China's social media.
The news was retweeted more than 2,000 times and garnered thousands of comments on China's twitter-like service Sina Weibo, where most netizens expressed scorn and negative feelings towards Chan’s appointment :
刺头马甲: Now we’ve got everyone – porn star, bootlicker, triad brother, officer’s mistress, extorter – to speak for us and to raise their hands for us. Great.
卧涛听风雨: If he says something like “Taiwan must not be independent,” or “Hong Kong can’t be too democratic,” maybe he will end up being the vice president.
Gohn: No wonder he got so agitated about the issue of corruption on Phoenix TV earlier. His illogical and incoherent speech was such a joke. Now I understand – he was trying hard to impress.
Chenwgl: My children never cared about politics, but they have become so enthusiastic about CPPCC lately because of all these Hong Kong movie stars – Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, etc.
东篱石: What’s there to congratulate? All they do in CPPCC is to clap hands.
人生就像染布光彩与灰都满布: He'd better transfer all his work to the mainland… Hong Kong won’t have a place for him anymore.
风华1992: Yet another movie star turns into a CPPCC member. Since when did this negative social trend become so popular?
时光曙光: It will be more than just celebrity gossip if he makes another mistake.
More online discussions
1 tribe of diversity (Twitter): Jackie Chan, when you’re politician in China don’t forget to free Tibet.
The Fundamentals (scmp.com): What is he going to do there? Teach English?
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10:51pm
They pay people to post praise for them and distorted lies online including this website.
Most students who join the Communist party only do it to help their career.
Even this paper has become the most pro Beijing one in Hong Kong in the hope it can get published in the mainland. It seems that the only people on the side of the Communists are people who directly benefit from it. They have no ideological roots anymore, no heart and soul believers.
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12:53pm
I thought a Hong Kongese, chaz_hen, claimed that China doesn't have freedom?! However, mainland Chinese just express themselves freely on China's Sina Weibo. China social system is not perfect yet the size of China just can not be changed over night.
Under British colonial rule, Hong Kong had far less freedom and democracy. The master colonizer forcefully discouraged political protests against the white ruling upper echelon and would never have allowed Hong Kong to hold local elections.
The British rulers siphoned great financial wealth from Hong Kong under the guises of taxes, administrative fees and other nicely titled levies. The colonial master cunningly bent, deformed and exploited the workings of Hong Kong’s financial, political and cultural institutions to its on benefit.
Like a herd of fattened lambs, the people of Hong Kong meekly accepted all this for many years. Indeed, in American lingo they are the perfect model of “Uncle Tom” n****s, but in this case Hong Kong n****s. In fact this has led the Western world to expect the same level of fatalistic subservience and ambivalence from Chinese mainlanders.
It seems that as a typical frail little Hong Kong poodle you deeply cherish being shamelessly dominated, violated and manipulated by white puppeteers like a bunch of good house n****s . It is indeed the saddest sight of ignorance as bliss.
JenniePCChiang/江佩珍 02/02/13 美國
5:01pm
everything you say is a blatent lie
hong kong has one of the worlds best infrastucture due to the british
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