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John Cena Shows ‘Gutlessness’ In Apology To China, Critics Say
Movie star and pro wrestler John Cena was taken to the mat by critics Tuesday for apologizing to China after he called Taiwan a country in an interview.
Cena told Taiwanese media that Taiwan would be the first “country” to be able to see his new “Fast and Furious” film “F9,” prompting backlash in China, which considers the self-ruled democratic island nation its own territory, The Associated Press reported. China often takes suggestions of Taiwan independence as an insult.
“In one interview, I made a mistake,” Cena said in Mandarin in a video posted Tuesday to Chinese social media, per AP. “I need to say now that this is very, very, very, very, very important. I love and respect China and the Chinese people. I’m very, very sorry. As for my mistake, I really apologize for it.”
Video of John Cena apologizing in Mandarin.
Taiwan vs. West Taiwan.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 28 2021, @07:46PM
The one trick of history is the one I'm borrowing. It tends to endlessly repeat itself. Predicting the future is, in many ways, no more difficult than reciting the past. This is how the writings of the great philosophers remain relevant. It's not that these individuals had some unprecedented, or preceded, intellect - but rather they were simple and objective observers of history, recounting it while generalizing to the most fundamental patterns.
When the political establishment of a country ever-longing for war starts injecting stories into the media about another country being responsible for millions of deaths - while just previously insisting such notion was a completely impossible conspiracy theory that must be censored, what - you think they've just decided now's a good time to start keeping the public informed? Iraq didn't start with "we're invading Iraq." It was a slow buildup around a completely fabricated narrative of Saddam having WMD (which we believed so much that we landed hundreds of thousands of soldiers there, because that's what you do in a destabilized country you believe has WMD). Remember all the inspections, posturing, and gradual demonization of anybody who thought war with Iraq was not smart?
People never thought WW1 would happen. And once it did happen, they immediately thought it could never happen again. Before just having a number attached to it, it was being called "The War to End All Wars". With any luck we're "only" entering into Cold War 2 now, likely with the goal of economically destabilizing China. Of course how we could manage to do that without destabilizing ourselves, given our dependence on them, is something I have no answer for.