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It’s a pitiful thing to see a strong man cry. It’s a sickening thing to see a man body-slam himself, then twist his own arm behind his back and make himself tap out. Wrestler turned actor John Cena may look like the Rock, but when it comes to China he’s Pee-Wee Herman. Doing an interview for his upcoming film “F9” in Taiwan, he referred to that free and thriving democratic island, which has had a separate government since 1949, as a “country” instead of as a province of China. When this led to an “outcry,” meaning it displeased the Communist...

When John Cena starts making apologies to the Chinese Communist Party, you know it’s time for him to tap out. On Tuesday, the pro wrestler and star of “F9,” the latest “Fast and Furious” flick, managed to look like a fool stuck in a bad scissor hold as he publicly confessed to thought crimes by referring to Taiwan as a country during film promo interviews. “I made a mistake,” Cena said in Mandarin on Weibo, China’s popular social-media platform. “Now I have to say one thing which is very, very, very important: I love and respect China and Chinese people....

BEIJING—John Cena made a terrible mistake in a recent promotional appearance for Fast & Furious 9, in which he referred to Taiwan as a country. This insulted the communist tyrants of the Chinese Communist Party, who demanded an apology. In an effort to make amends for his faux pas, Cena body-slammed a Uighur Muslim in a specially recorded apology video. "I am so, so very sorry for insulting the glorious People's Republic Of China," said Cena in broken Mandarin. "We want to be able to show our movie in your wonderful free country and make lots of money, which is...

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. Cena, who is promoting the release of his movie Fast & Furious 9, faced uproar from Chinese audiences after he told a Taiwanese broadcaster that Taiwan was "the first country that can watch" the film. After the movie opened in China this weekend—earning $137 million, a record for China since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic—Cena posted a video on Tuesday to the Chinese social media website Weibo apologizing for his "mistake" of calling Taiwan...

When I was told that actor John Cena “begged” for forgiveness from the “Chinese people” (though he was clearly begging the Chinese Communist Party, owners of Hollywood) for calling Taiwan a country, I assumed it was exaggerated. I figured he said he was sorry and moved on. Nope, he begged. In Chinese. In a public video. If he had fallen to his knees in front of Xi Jinping and wept while kissing the Chinese leader’s feet, it would not have been any more humiliating than the video he recorded. https://twitter.com/i/status/1396910262494457856 Translated: “Hi China, I’m John Cena. I’m in the middle...

​John Cena was on the receiving end of a piledriver Tuesday from American Twitter users after his “pathetic” apology to China for referring to Taiwan as a country during a promotional spot for his new movie “F9.” SNIP Cena, speaking Mandarin, went on Chinese social media site Weibo Tuesday to apologize for calling Taiwan a country during a promotional interview for “F9,” the latest installment for the “Fast and Furious” franchise, earlier this month. SNIP “I made one mistake. I have to say something very, very, very important now. I love and respect China and Chinese people. I’m very, very...

The following is the English-language version of “The Importance of Being Candid,” a speech delivered by Deputy National Security Advisor Matt Pottinger in Mandarin Chinese from the White House during a video conference hosted by Policy Exchange in London. Click here for Mandarin version. I’d like to thank Dean Godson and Policy Exchange for inviting me to deliver the ninth annual Colin Cramphorn lecture. We all look forward to a time when we can gather again in person for events like this. With new vaccines and therapeutics on the near horizon, I’m optimistic that day will soon arrive. In the...

LONDON - A British intelligence translator has been cleared of leaking a secret e-mail that alleged the U.S. wanted to spy on United Nations Security Council members before the war against Iraq. "The prosecution offer no evidence against the defendant on this indictment as there is no longer sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction," prosecutor Mark Ellison told the court. Katharine Gun, 29, works at the Government Communications Headquarters, Britain's global surveillance centre. She was charged in November with breaching Britain's Official Secrets Act after an memo was leaked to the British newspaper The Observer. The newspaper reported...

Trump granddaughter speaking Chinese. Ivanka Trumps daughter Arabella recites Chinese poem. Ivanka Trump's Adorable Daughter Arabella Speaks Mandarin. A video of Donald Trump's granddaughter reciting ancient Chinese poetry went viral once again on China's social media following Trump's presidential victory. Arabella has been studying putonghua since she was 18 months old, the Daily Mail reported. The clip was made to mark the Year of the Monkey, which ends January 27, 2017. The video was trending on Sina Weibo soon after Trump was announced as president-elect, with many users praising Arabella as "surprisingly cute and impressive."

Donald Trump's election may have been greeted with skepticism in China, but it seems the President-elect may have someone he can call on to help smooth over relations with Beijing - his grand-daughter. A video of Arabella Kushner, daughter of Ivanka Trump, reciting a poem in Mandarin has gone viral. The five-year-old was recorded in February, but an Instagram post by her mother has been widely shared since Trump's election win. Wearing a traditional Chinese dress, Arabella recited the poem, which dates back to the Tang Dynasty, to mark Chinese New Year. It has been met with approval in China,...

President Obama announced a new initiative Friday aimed at having 1 million American schoolchildren learn Mandarin Chinese over the next five years. The commitment by Obama would see the number of American students learning Mandarin quintuple; 200,000 students across the country are studying Mandarin today. Obama framed the initiative as a chance for the countries to learn more about each other. "If our two countries are going to do more together around the world, then speaking each other's languages so we can understand each other is a good start," Obama said.

Out on a sunny Berlin balcony, Tim Keeley and Daniel Krasa are firing words like bullets at each other. First German, then Hindi, Nepali, Polish, Croatian, Mandarin and Thai – they’ve barely spoken one language before the conversation seamlessly melds into another. Together, they pass through about 20 different languages or so in total. It can be difficult enough to learn one foreign tongue. Yet I’m here in Berlin for the Polyglot Gathering, a meeting of 350 or so people who speak multiple languages – some as diverse as Manx, Klingon and Saami, the language of reindeer herders in Scandinavia....

All primary schools will be expected to teach foreign languages to pupils from 2014 as part of a major drive to boost education standards, it emerged. At least one subject from a seven-strong shortlist – French, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin, Latin and ancient Greek – will be offered to seven- to 11-year-olds. The move – outlined in a consultation document published by the Department for Education – could result in a major rise in the number of pupils studying the classical languages at a young age....

<p>MILAN (AP) — Foreign ministry officials in Rome and Vienna confirm that names of two nationals listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysian airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand.</p> <p>Italy's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that an Italian man whose name was listed as being aboard is traveling in Thailand and was not aboard the plane.</p>

OTTAWA -- The Americans gave the cold shoulder to an offer of a steady supply of Alberta crude, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper will get plenty of face time with potential energy buyers this weekend in Hawaii. And Harper could use the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit to ask President Barack Obama why he is stalling on the Keystone pipeline -- a project Harper once said was a "no-brainer" because of the number of jobs it would create on both sides of the border. The postponement of a decision on the $7-billion pipeline to Texas from Alberta until after next...

When asked on the Colbert Report to speak Chinese, Huntsman spoke one sentence and then “translated” his words as “I just said you ought to consider being my running mate for vice president.” The studio audience roared in approval. Yet in reality, Huntsman’s mangled Chinese would translate as: “I really want you to do my vice-America president.” In this brief and simple sentence, Huntsman managed to (incorrectly) insert the word America in the middle of the Chinese word for vice president (fu-zong-tong); made a less-than-ideal choice of verbs; and combined my and American vice president in a way that implies...

Hong Kong people rally to save Cantonese language By admin Created 01/08/2010 - 12:59 More than 1,000 protesters rallied in Guangzhou and Hong Kong on Sunday against what they say is China's bid to champion the national language Mandarin over their local dialect Cantonese. Hundreds of mainland police officers were deployed to disperse protesters who gathered in People's Park in Guangzhou to call on authorities to preserve the Cantonese language and culture, Hong Kong broadcasters RTHK and Cable TV reported. "Guangzhou people speak the Guangzhou language!" some angry protesters chanted as the size of the crowd grew to about 1,000,...

"...March 8, 2009: Two Chinese women are being prosecuted for stealing American technology for China. A Maryland resident, Yaming Nina Qi Hanson, was caught exporting miniaturized autopilots for UAVs. An Illinois resident, Hanjuan Jin, was caught trying to get electronics design data (from her former employer, Motorola) to China..."

Alleging misconduct, Artorius Castus and a number of private entities have filed papers with the SEC pushing for an investigation into the burgeoning IndyMac scandal. Next week, one these entities will be filing papers and producing evidence to the Department of Justice requesting an ivestigation into Schumer's leaked memo.

There are hundreds of dialects among China's 1.3bn people Only about half of China's population can speak the national language, Mandarin, according to the state news agency Xinhua.More men speak Mandarin than women, and more urbanites speak the language than those in rural areas, Xinhua said. For many years now, the government has tried to increase the use of Mandarin, to promote social cohesion. But China has hundreds of dialects, some of which - such as Cantonese and Hokkien - have strong regional support. In a survey of 500,000 people around the country, the Ministry of Education found that...