{"id":1933581,"date":"2023-05-18T23:08:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T03:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-million-fine-levied-production-suspended-after-comedian-mocks-government-slogan\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T23:09:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T03:09:35","slug":"2-million-fine-levied-production-suspended-after-comedian-mocks-government-slogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-million-fine-levied-production-suspended-after-comedian-mocks-government-slogan\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian&#8217;s Mockery of Government Slogan Results in $2M Fine and Production Halt."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2-million-fine-levied-production-suspended-after-comedian-mocks-government-slogan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1933581&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Chinese Comedian Faces Backlash for Joke About Military Slogan<\/h2>\n<p>A popular Chinese comedian, Li Haoshi, is facing consequences for a joke he made during a stand-up routine that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/super-bowl-lv-all-the-best-commercials\/\" title=\"Super Bowl LV: All The Best Commercials\">poked fun<\/a> at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2-million-fine-levied-production-suspended-after-comedian-mocks-government-slogan\/\" title=\"Comedian's Mockery of Government Slogan Results in M Fine and Production Halt.\">military slogan introduced<\/a> by President Xi Jinping in 2013. Li&#8217;s joke involved his two dogs chasing a squirrel, with the punchline referencing the slogan &#8220;Maintain exemplary conduct, fight to win.&#8221; The joke went viral on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media<\/a> and sparked a government investigation, with the Beijing Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau accusing Li of &#8220;severely insulting&#8221; the People&#8217;s Liberation Army. Li&#8217;s comedy studio was fined $2 million and its performances in Beijing were suspended indefinitely. <\/p>\n<h3>Insulting the Military is a Crime in China<\/h3>\n<p>China passed a law in 2021 banning insults and slanderous statements regarding its military, and Li&#8217;s case is not the first to test the law. A journalist who questioned the country&#8217;s role in the Korean War was convicted and sentenced to seven months in prison. Li has apologized for his joke and posted a statement on the Chinese social media platform Weibo, where he had over 136,000 followers before his account was suspended. However, Beijing police are still investigating the incident, and Li&#8217;s troubles may not be over.<\/p>\n<h3>Lessons Learned<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Be careful what you joke about in China, especially when it comes to the military.<\/li>\n<li>Insulting the military is a crime in China, and the consequences can be severe.<\/li>\n<li>China&#8217;s government takes its military very seriously and will not tolerate any disrespect towards it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Li&#8217;s case serves as a reminder that freedom of speech is not universal and that comedians, like all public figures, must be aware of the cultural and political sensitivities of their audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a sensitive topic in China and faced backlash. The incident highlights the limits on free speech in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":1933582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[16226,12277,5032,5045,10485,4699,4757,19617],"class_list":["post-1933581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-2m","tag-comedians","tag-fine","tag-government","tag-halt","tag-mockery","tag-production","tag-slogan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}