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Andy Lau is now 63 but he just keeps getting stronger and his performances more amazing than ever as seen in Axiata ArenaBEIJING has slammed some Taiwan ese politicians for “manipulation” after they attacked Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau Tak-wah for performing his song “Chinese people” at a concert on the self-ruled island.
She said the lyrics, “holding hands, without differentiating you and me, we will move ahead with our heads up and let the world know that we are all Chinese”, not only received an “enthusiastic response” from the audience but resonated with Chinese communities at home and abroad. The incident is the latest controversy highlighting how the political impact of increasingly tenuous cross-strait ties has spilled over into broader society.
The lyrics to Lau’s song, which had been released in 1997 to commemorate Hong Kong’s return to China, border on the nationalistic. “I’m dumbfounded... If you’re Chinese, then don’t come to Taiwan to hold your concerts,” one netizen wrote. A Nov 4 opinion piece in the state-owned Global Times newspaper argued that the incident “exposes fragility of ‘Taiwan independence’ secessionists”.“Many people in Taiwan understandably do not identify themselves with the PRC Chinese regime since this regime has continuously imposed threats on Taiwan and its people,” said Dr Josephine Chiu-Duke, a professor of Chinese intellectual history at the University of British Columbia’s department of Asian studies.
Years of tense and often deteriorating ties have hypersensitised people on both sides of the strait, causing them to seek to police behaviours in society outside of the political sphere.Taiwanese girl group S.H.E found themselves mired in similar controversy in 2007, when their tongue-twister rap Zhong Guo Hua, or “Chinese language”, was slammed for pandering to China.
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