Hong Kong opera star apologizes for praising British queen

If you do not know about personally,you are not obligated too honor,them how many people here are gonna me on my final journey

Can't praise the person you're signing the condolences book for. What a sorry state of affairs Hong Kong has become.

Chinese nationalists are petty. Guess they've never heard, "don't speak ill of the dead."

Really, it is "De mortuis nil nisi bonum".

Petty. Very petty.

Kinda difficult for China to forget the opium wars that led to the infringement of thier country

Exactly what did Queen Elizabeth have to do with those? Nothing. We don't blame Xi for Mao's killing 65M Chinese, do we? No.

It’s depressing to see the freest people on earth subjugated by the butchers of Beijing. Shame on America for standing idly by while this happens.

Kinda difficult for China to forget the opium wars that led to the infringement of thier country.

The communists slaughtered 100M plus people. Far worse than the Nazis. They are morally bankrupt.

Shame on America for standing idly by while this happens

Hong Kong is a tragedy.

What exactly do you want the US to do about this?

China can best be described as a hysterical lynch mob of 1.3 billion people.

theFuToday  09:01 am JST

Chinese nationalists are petty. Guess they've never heard, "don't speak ill of the dead."

Really, it is "De mortuis nil nisi bonum".

Petty. Very petty.

Kinda difficult for China to forget the opium wars that led to the infringement of thier country

Exactly what did Queen Elizabeth have to do with those? Nothing. We don't blame Xi for Mao's killing 65M Chinese, do we? No.

That's right now. Say you're sorry for speaking your mind about an event happening out of your nation is a crime now, huh? then declaring that you're a 'loyal good Commie boy' under duress. Yet another sad sign of what HK truly has become.

Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation

Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation

Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation

We have assumed control.

We have assumed control.

We have assumed control.

Censorship again?

The terrible thing is that it seems to be increasing .....everywhere!

when Xi is dead, I'll be sure to speak plenty of ill about him.

What goes around comes around

"Hong Kong opera star apologizes for praising British queen"

If one bothers to read the history of Hong Kong, it might begin to open one's eyes as to WHY a patriotic Chinese person might not be anymore pleased to hear praise of a British monarch that a patriotic Brit to hear praise of Mikhail Gorbachev who stood head and shoulders above ANY British monarch past or present.

"It was the British influence that made Hong Kong the unique independent power house it used to be."

I'm sure that the highly educated Chinese people who were dominated by British military power and who actually did the work for the British had NOTHING to do with it. And it might be remembered that Hong Kong came to be as a result of the poisonous and barbarous British Opium trade which crippled and killed so many in China, and the British welcome to any rich psychopathic crook who had nowhere else to go is what built its economic success. But, yes, the British occupation of Hong Kong was little but sweetness and light.

Probably a gun to his head while he retracted his original message.

As for USMC William Bjornson's closing comment... if the British were so bad, why did the people of Hong Kong dread the coming of Communist China? This from Steve Tsang, director of the China Institute of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London:

In the 1920s, the working class Chinese of Hong Kong did not have a good reason to rally around the Hong Kong government, and they were more susceptible to appeals based on Chinese nationalism. Consequently, the call of the Communists was basically heeded by the working men, and their actions practically paralysed the colony for a year. By the [end of the] 1960s, however, the attempts by the Hong Kong government to maintain stability and good order which helped improve everyone's living conditions, and ... the beginning of the emergence of a Hong Kong identity, changed the attitude of the local Chinese. They overwhelmingly rallied around the colonial British regime.

Awa no Gaijin

Today 08:43 am JST

Kinda difficult for China to forget the opium wars that led to the infringement of thier country

They don't seem to have a problem forgetting about 60 million deaths under Mao!

The mob censorship of any comment they dislike or can be vaguely seen to disagree with the rabid nationalistic party line is a clear sign of the claustrophobically pervasive and oppressive nature of the mainland dictatorship that permeates every public and private aspect of life that the Hong Kong population feared and dreaded.

Hong Kong had inherited a foundation of freedom of thought, democracy and rule of law centred on the rights of the individual not the rights of the state upon which they were building until frightened old men of the CCP feared such an example would undermine their own desperate grip on power and brutally crushed it.

AntiquesavingSep. 16  05:48 pm JST

Awa no Gaijin

Today 08:43 am JST

Kinda difficult for China to forget the opium wars that led to the infringement of thier country

They don't seem to have a problem forgetting about 60 million deaths under Mao!

Yes, and for what? He was killing Communists who 'weren't loyal enough' to HIS version of it! He was a crazy violent murderous bastard and nearly all of his victims were Chinese.

And I remember seeing live on NBC-TV the Tiananmen Square demonstrations and the crackdown just as the CCP revved up the tanks and the foreign news blackout that ensued. Sad to say the scourge is still in China and HK is totally engulfed into it. It's gone, HK is just a city with the name but it's just another CCP province now.

SsrpSep. 16  02:48 pm JST

It was the British influence that made Hong Kong the unique independent power house it used to be.

It is the Communist Chinese take over that will diminish Hong Kong to a second tier nation in just a few years...

Really sad actually

It already has. It's just like Nanjing, Chungking, Wuhan, Beijin, etc. now. Another part of China itself, another territory under the rotten rule of the evil CCP.