A South Korean e-sports player has been under siege after his recent comment that “to earn Chinese money, you have to be a Chinese dog” irritated small fans. (Twitter screenshot)
A South Korean e-sports player recently said on live TV that “if you want to make money from the Chinese, you have to be China’s dog”, and the Chinese Communist Party’s pinkies were stimulated again, with a wave of criticism. Overseas netizens have ridiculed the reaction of the pinkies and expressed their discontent with the Chinese Communist Party’s interference with freedom of speech.
On April 12, South Korean e-sports player Park Jong Yeol (game ID: saebyeolbe) spoke out about his views on the Chinese market when he returned to his Twitch channel live after finishing his live game on the Chinese platform.
According to the translation by mainland netizens, Park Jong Yeol said, “In China, Taiwan can’t say Taiwan and Hong Kong can’t say Hong Kong, so I don’t know how to speak, so I don’t say it anymore. I don’t know why you can’t say that, you just can’t say it, maybe it’s weird that they say one China or something. Still over there a China it, from the beginning China does not recognize the two countries of Taiwan and Hong Kong. So I live when the tantrum, the manager are very understanding.”
He went on to say, “The team said that if you want to make money from the Chinese, you have to be China’s dog. So now I’m being a Chinese dog, and I’m even learning Chinese seriously. I can even say ‘thank you for the gift’ in Chinese, I speak Chinese very well.”
Park Jong Yeol’s words immediately spread on the mainland network, and the little fans began to “denounce” the abuse, and some of them demanded a “statement” and “explanation”, and even said “The company’s main goal is to provide a good solution to the problem.
The company has not responded to this request so far, neither Park Jong Yeol nor his team.
Overseas netizens have a different voice. An overseas netizen said, “Chinese people can’t accept the truth.” “Just tell the truth, the glass is broken again.” “People have mocked themselves as dogs …… and are still under siege ……”
Current affairs commentator Yokohama has analyzed that a lot of scolding by Pinky may be effective against mainland netizens; the effect against Taiwan and Hong Kong may have to be worse, because there are institutional and cultural differences too; against countries with completely different languages and cultures may be completely ineffective.
Recently, the CCP attacked H&M, Nike, Adidas and many other brands for their “rejecting Xinjiang cotton and opposing (CCP) forced labor” statement in early 2020, launching a small pink criticism, but with limited effect. These brands have not apologized, and their sales on the mainland remain hot.
Attempts by the CCP to control global speech are commonplace, including “Hong Kong,” “Taiwan,” “Tibet,” “Xinjiang “, “Falun Gong”, “Wuhan pneumonia”, “freedom of belief”, “freedom of speech ” and many other terms are taboo for the Chinese Communist Party.
In the past, many foreign companies or individuals have been suppressed for touching the “red line” of the Chinese Communist Party. For example, Blitzchung (nicknamed “Cong”), a Hong Kong professional player in the 2019 edition of the famous handheld game #HearthstoneWarriors, shouted “Restoration of Hong Kong, revolution of the times” after the game, and two Taiwanese commentators and anchors applauded in tribute. Subsequently, the game’s parent company Blizzard Entertainment removed Cong from the professional game, cancelled the previous season’s prize money, banned him for a year, and suspended the two game commentators and anchors from working together. The incident sparked a boycott by many Hong Kong and Taiwan players.
However, also in 2019, during Hong Kong’s anti-China campaign, NBA Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey tweeted “Fighting for freedom, with Hong Kong”, which was instantly criticized by the Chinese Communist Party for inciting the nation to fight, but neither Morey nor the NBA apologized, and mainland media briefly suspended NBA The NBA broadcast was briefly suspended by the mainland media and then resumed, triggering public opinion to ridicule the Chinese Communist Party.
Rep. Mike Gallagher (D-CA), co-sponsor of the bipartisan Preventing Foreign Censorship in America Act of 2020, said. “The Chinese Communist Party is trying to control freedom of thought and expression around the world and by pressuring companies in foreign countries to censor and punish their employees for their speech, we must stop it.”
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