Late night host Bill Maher has a message for America’s elites: stop kowtowing to China. Maher dedicated a segment of his talk show Real Time with Bill Maher to expose companies and celebrities that have looked the other way on China’s human rights abuses to make a buck.
“‘Kowtow’ is a Chinese word, but boy, Americans have gotten good at it,” Maher said. “China offers American companies and celebrities: We’ll give you access to our billion-plus consumers as long as you shut up about the whole police-state-genocide thing. John Cena took that deal. Well, c’mon. China accounts for 34% of global box office, and he’s a movie star now. So, like the Uyghurs, last year, he learned he needed to get some re-education. You see, John referred to Taiwan as a country, as if it was a separate country from China, which it is. But China would like to do to Taiwan what it did to Tibet and what it’s now doing to Hong Kong.”
Watch the clip below:
The #Olympics pretends to only be about sports, but really the games have always been a bit of a proxy war for which country has the best system. #StopKowtowingChina pic.twitter.com/l2fUDh4nSi
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) February 19, 2022
Maher’s rant was triggered by Gu, the 18-year-old American skier who decided to compete for China instead of on Team USA.
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