Beijing- Gongfu star Jackie Chan's controversial comments that freedom may not be good for the Chinese people could start to hurt not just his reputation, but also his pocket.
Mainland Chinese are calling for a boycott of his May 1 concert in Beijing, Taiwanese want his latest movie ditched and Hong Kongers are protesting against his role as the city's tourism ambassador.
The 55-year-old action movie star sparked an uproar after he told a business forum last Saturday that 'we Chinese need to be controlled', lamenting that freedom had made Hong Kong and Taiwan societies chaotic. 'I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not,' said Chan, who added: 'If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want......
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Chaotic? Wake up and smell the desperate poor Chinese trying to pull themselves up from the rut since Mao's dictatorship era.
While China was undergoing the "Great Leap Forward" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_leap_forward), and the "Cultural Revolution" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_revolution), Hong Kong, under British rule, was increasing its GDP by leaps and bounds. Taiwan, having become the Kuomingtang's hiding ground, became a democrat society and its economy became a Miracle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Miracle).
What happened to China? From the 1940s-1960s, scholars, land owners, entrepreneurs in the country were killed, disowned by their families, stripped of their posessions.
So Jackie Chan, before you do a high kick and go all dictator-like, punch these facts into your head first yea?
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