{"id":540039,"date":"2021-05-25T14:20:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540039"},"modified":"2021-05-25T14:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:20:52","slug":"john-cena-apologizes-for-calling-taiwan-a-country-after-his-film-made-137-million-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-cena-apologizes-for-calling-taiwan-a-country-after-his-film-made-137-million-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cena Apologizes for Calling Taiwan a Country After His Film Made $137 Million in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fjohn-cena-apologizes-for-calling-taiwan-a-country-after-his-film-made-137-million-in-china%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=540039&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/John-Cena-scaled-e1621962865654.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Actor and professional wrestler John Cena apologized for referring to Taiwan as a country after his film grossed record sales in China over the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cena, who is promoting the release of his movie <\/span><i><span>Fast &amp; Furious 9<\/span><\/i><span>, faced uproar from Chinese audiences after he told a Taiwanese broadcaster that Taiwan was &#8220;the first country that can watch&#8221; the film. After the movie opened in China this weekend\u2014earning $137 million, a record for China since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic\u2014Cena posted a video on Tuesday to the Chinese social media website Weibo apologizing for his &#8220;mistake&#8221; of calling Taiwan a country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I made one mistake,&#8221; Cena <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/martial-arts\/wrestling\/article\/3134752\/wwe-superstar-john-cena-very-sorry-chinese-fans\"><span>said<\/span><\/a> in Mandarin<span>. &#8220;I love and respect China and Chinese people. I\u2019m very, very sorry about my mistake. I apologise, I apologise, I\u2019m very sorry. You must understand that I really love, really respect China and the Chinese people.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has maintained political independence from China since 1949 and is led by a pro-American, democratic, and anti-communist government. China maintains that Taiwan is a sovereign territory of China, and Chinese president Xi Jinping has pledged his ambition to retake Taiwan. U.S. military leaders have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/china-sends-25-warplanes-into-taiwanese-airspace\/\">warned<\/a> an invasion of the country by China could occur within the next six years.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) blasted Cena for joining the growing list of celebrities who &#8220;sell their souls&#8221; to China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cena, like Lebron, bends the knee to Xi. Yet another example of how many of the people who engineer our popular culture, often while lecturing us about how evil America is, are the first to sell their souls to the Chinese Communist Party,&#8221; Gallagher <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepGallagher\/status\/1397221120982589447?s=20\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>The professional wrestler is not the first Hollywood figure to try to satisfy Chinese audiences&#8217; political convictions. In 2019, <\/span><span>Paramount Pictures <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/cruz-top-gun-censorship-for-china-proves-hollywood-is-afraid-to-stand-up-for-free-speech\/\">altered<\/a> the <em>Top Gun <\/em>sequel&nbsp;to censor Japanese and Taiwanese flags that appeared on the jacket of Hollywood star Tom Cruise. Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) called the decision a move to &#8220;appease&#8221; China at the time. In 2012, <\/span><i><span>Red Dawn<\/span><\/i><span>, a remake of the 1984 anti-Soviet film of the same name, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2237717\/Red-Dawn-remake-swapped-Chinese-flags-insignia-North-Korean-ones-fear-losing-billion-dollar-box-office.html\"><span>changed<\/span><\/a><span> the enemy in the film from China to North Korea in post-production, fearing blowback from the Chinese market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The film industry\u2019s ties to China are significant and often come with political implications. In December, the President Joe Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-may-hand-ambassador-posts-to-hollywood-megadonors-with-ccp-ties\/\"><span>considered<\/span><\/a><span> former DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and former Disney CEO Bob Iger for his nomination to become ambassador to China. Katzenberg and Iger, both Hollywood megadonors, have extensive ties to Chinese business.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor and professional wrestler John Cena apologized for referring to Taiwan as a country after his film grossed record sales in China over the weekend. 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