The exiled Chinese artist spoke to Sky's Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips about the cancellation of his exhibition by a gallery in London.
    • wurzelgummidge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      10 months ago

      You’ve clearly never been to China. Winnie the Pooh mugs, t-shirts and the other usual shit are all available in China. Most of it is made there.

      You can’t believe all you read in western media. When it comes to coverage of places the US doesn’t like, you can’t believe very much at all.

      • Daxtron2@startrek.websiteEnglish
        64·
        10 months ago

        you know exactly what I meant and deliberately tried to steer the conversation away from it. Bravo

      • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        113·
        10 months ago

        There is an entire universe of difference between the government telling you you can’t say something and arresting and/or disappearing you if you ignore them, and privately owned museums, exhibit halls, or online platforms refusing to do business with you if you say something stupid in public that harms people’s perceptions of you. You’re absolutely free to spout every hot take and conspiracy theory you want (there’s certainly no shortage of people who do), but nobody is obligated to respect you or do business with you if you do. What’s not going to happen is an FBI agent or cop coming around to “have a chat” and if you refuse to publicly retract your statements then quietly sending you off to some gulag without telling anyone where you’ll be worked to death and then your organs harvested and sold. That’s the difference between “the West” and China.