cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/historyphotos/p/1150640/1989-actor-and-martial-arts-star-jackie-chan-at-the-benefit-concert-in-hong-kong-in-support
Sadly Jackie has betrayed the people of Hong Kong. In 2009 he stated “I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not.”. He also said he was “beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled.”


Yeah this is hilarious, Jackie Chan is a borderline fenatic for the CCP. That being said, the CCP won’t even admit Tiananmen Square ever happened and scrubbed it from their internet.
It’s also ironic he made all his money in the west, that the CCP despises.
CHina is a wierd one with the west, they love thier own being promoted overseas, and western made movies that chinese people like watching. they love money more than politics for the most part. i saw him recently tyring to come back, with cobra kai? or another karate based film.
The Tiananmen part you mentioned is slightly inaccurate. It is important for us to recognize that censorship has far evolved from Stalin cartoony into disseminated dilutions to control the truth. China still covers it but waters it down as “The Spring–Summer Political Turmoil of 1989” (“1989年春夏之交的政治风波”); posts that refer to it with different names are removed, but the official narrative can be perfectly searched for and appears in documentaries. After all, the best way to plug an artificial hole is to leave no gaps.
Here’s an example of how the domestic internet covers it:
Hopefully the problem with this description is obvious.
In spite of their efforts, you would be hard-pressed to find someone in a Chinese city who doesn’t know what the CCP is censoring on this topic, thankfully.