Pro athletes and amateur politicians of the democratic party will never criticize China because they rely on the communist regime for so much revenue. The same is true of Hollywood, so when John Cena accidentally insulted China, it was time to for some serious ass-kissing. In a shameless apology, the actor/wrestler groveled in full Mandarin Chinese to appease his communist overlords.
Cena was promoting F9, the latest installment in the Fast & Furious franchise, and did an interview with a Taiwanese outlet when he made this mistake:
“Taiwan is the first country that can watch F9,” said Cena.
Do you see the problem? Taiwan is a self-governing democratic island, but China thinks it belongs to them. According to China, Taiwan is not a country, but rather a part of their country. Cena done f*cked up by calling Taiwan a country, which is almost as bad as suggesting China started COVID-19 or is committing genocide.
No worries, Cena speaks Mandarin and made this video apology to demonstrate the proper way to kiss communist Chinese ass:
John Cena apologized in Chinese on Sina Weibo after calling Taiwan a country during an interview promoting Fast & Furious 9 pic.twitter.com/dzRKIYgEzL
— Joe Xu (@JoeXu) May 24, 2021
Since I don’t speak Mandarin, let’s go to CCP propaganda The South China Morning Post for an interpretation:
“Hi China, I’m John Cena. I’m in the middle of Fast and Furious 9 promotions. I’m doing a lot of interviews. I made a mistake in one of my interviews. Everyone was asking me if I could use Chinese – [movie] staff gave me a lot of information, so there was a lot of interviews and information,” Cena said.
“I made one mistake. I have to say something very, very, very important now. I love and respect China and Chinese people. I’m very, very sorry about my mistake. I apologise, I apologise, I’m very sorry. You must understand that I really love, really respect China and the Chinese people. My apologies. See you,” Cena said.
You got a little on your chin there, John.
Hey, what’s not to love and respect about China? It’s not like they unleashed a deadly pandemic that has killed millions world wide, or that they use slave labor, or genocide people, or that they are the world’s biggest polluter, or that they manipulate currency, or that they have an atrocious human rights record.
In Cena’s defense, he had to make this apology or he would have never worked again in Hollywood. The American movie industry relies on China to make money on their horrible movies. If Cena insults China, Hollywood can no longer put him in films because it would upset the communists.
This, by the way, is one of the reasons movies suck so bad now. Hollywood makes movies for the Chinese market and that means they have to do things in a way that won’t piss off the CCP. The censorship starts before filming begins because above all else, Hollywood is trying to make films that the communists will allow their subjects to watch.
The truly sad part about this is, it doesn’t appear that Cena’s ass-kissing was accepted. Several commenters on his video apology noted that he didn’t apologize specifically for the hate crime of calling Taiwan a country:
“Please say in Chinese that Taiwan is part of China. Otherwise, we won’t accept it,” wrote one CCP operative.
“Then you should say Taiwan is China’s! What you have said in the video is nonsense. You can’t take benefits from China, but in the meantime, do things to harm China’s interests,” wrote another.
It looks like Cena is going to have to take another crack at this. I suggest more groveling and perhaps a few tears. Really make those Chinese believe he’s willing to grab his ankles and take what ever the CCP can give.
