{"id":259382,"date":"2021-05-26T01:12:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/john-cenas-china-apology-proves-hes-no-tough-guy-after-all\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T01:12:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:12:10","slug":"john-cenas-china-apology-proves-hes-no-tough-guy-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/john-cenas-china-apology-proves-hes-no-tough-guy-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"#John Cena&#8217;s China apology proves he&#8217;s no tough guy after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#John Cena&#8217;s China apology proves he&#8217;s no tough guy after all<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When John Cena starts making apologies to the Chinese Communist Party, you know it\u2019s time for him to tap out.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the pro wrestler and star of \u201cF9,\u201d the latest \u201cFast and Furious\u201d flick, managed to look like a fool stuck in a bad scissor hold as he publicly confessed to thought crimes by  referring to Taiwan as a country during film promo interviews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made a mistake,\u201d Cena said in Mandarin on Weibo, China\u2019s popular <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-media platform. \u201cNow I have to say one thing which is very, very, very important: I love and respect China and Chinese people. I\u2019m sorry for my mistake. I must say now, [it\u2019s] very, very, very, very important [that] I love, and respect even more, China and the Chinese people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t even dare mention what he\u2019d done wrong to require his mea culpa: It was saying, \u201cTaiwan is the first country that can watch \u2018F9.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"606\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"John Cena made the apologies on the popular app Weibo.\" class=\"wp-image-18341907 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/john-cena.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/john-cena.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/john-cena.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/john-cena.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=606 606w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/05\/john-cena.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1212 1212w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 606px\"\/><figcaption>John Cena made the apologies on the popular <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> Weibo.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Taiwan <em>is<\/em> a country \u2014 a democratic, self-ruled island nation that Bejing <em>claims<\/em> sovereignty over. But acknowledging that truth in any way peeves China\u2019s Communist rulers, who could retaliate by blocking distribution of US films there.<\/p>\n<p>So Hollywood has taken to censoring nearly all its products to keep Beijing happy, since  China is a huge market, especially for big-budget action films. Heck, speaking up for China-occupied Tibet made Richard Gere a non-person in Tinseltown.<\/p>\n<p>Remember this the next time any Hollywood star starts moralizing about <em>any<\/em> international issue. They only speak out when it doesn\u2019t threaten their own profits.\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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On Tuesday, the pro wrestler and star of \u201cF9,\u201d the latest \u201cFast and Furious\u201d flick, managed to look like a fool stuck in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/05\/gettyimages-1203220413.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[107165,4973,43,5021,57288,72633],"class_list":["post-259382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-25-21","tag-china","tag-editorial","tag-hollywood","tag-john-cena","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}