A Chinese pianist has insulted the American nation and humiliated President Obama by playing a well-known anti-American song at a state dinner function attended by both President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
Famous Chinese pianist Lang Lang was playing for the premiers of both China and the US at a White House function intended to show the supposed amity between the two nations.
However, after the dinner concluded it was realised that one of the songs he had played was actually an anti-American propaganda piece.
The song in question, “My Motherland,” is a famous tune in China, originating from a Korean War propaganda film glorifying China’s attack on UN forces defending South Korea from an unprovoked invasion by the North.
The song contains a refrain calling the Americans “jackals” fit only to be shot:
“There are good wines for friends who come,
And if there be wolves and jackals,
We greet them with hunting rifle.This is my big and powerful Motherland
The land of my birth.
On this vast land peace radiates!”
Both the White House and the Chinese government have refused to acknowledge the significance of the song, although it is widely suspected the Chinese government would have known in advance what exactly the pianist would be playing and what its significance would be.
Lang Lang claims rather improbably that his decision to play a song glorifying a war against the US to their own president was just an expression of national pride and musical taste:
“Playing this song praising China to heads of state from around the world seems to tell them that our China is formidable, that our Chinese people are united; I feel deeply honored and proud.”
[…]
“I thought to play ‘My Motherland’ because I think playing the tune at the White House banquet can help us, as Chinese people, feel extremely proud of ourselves and express our feelings through the song. I think it’s especially good.”
Online, Chinese are crowing with delight at being able to insult their hated foe so brazenly and get away with it, whilst Americans are being left with the distinct impression peace is the last thing which radiates from China…
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China Quality Diplomacy.
From China, even peace treaties are of such quality.
That China sure loves to pull stunts like this...
"China Quality Diplomacy" indeed, Megidola...
Oh yes...Chinese Diplomacy indeed. The retarded Obama administration just bends over and takes it. Disgusting.
I feel the need to ram a few Chinese spy-trawlers.
China can't use the "closed door" trick again now that Bush is no longer president, so they had to resort to this song...
it's a beautiful song regardless of its meaning.
musicians value music over politics.
Well they kind of have no choice, China is holding the US by the neck against a wall & demanding them to give'em the money or else...
Ah, sweet sweet Dept, ruins everything it touches...
WW3 may indeed happen within our lifetime.
Yes i support china for doing this.
If china collapse first, the western world will face major recession.
We take about 700 billion dollars (without compensation) from them them and the best insult they can come up with is a song? I'll take the trade gladly
China should be destroyed. Better them now than us later. I say nuke those fucks...it already worked nicely on the japanese... :-)
toyNN
11:25
in america, we have the freedom to say whatever the fuck we want about government. in china you get put in prison, or killed, whichever is easier for them to do to that individual.
the fuck are we up in arms about a song? is it insulting, possibly? does it demonstrate that in america you are free? fuck yea.
are chinese missing the message? fuck yea.
Lawence Codye
11:47
we honestly don't have to take it. if we want within a year, probably less we could move to india, they have us by the ball in the short term but if they really pissed us off, we can tell them to fuck off.
Anonymous
12:48
700 billion is cut back spending for 1 year by about 1/6th, we can take a hard year to pay them back if nessassary
"Bends over and takes it." As opposed to what? Declaring war then and there? Gods, I hope you never end up in a position with policy control over a cross-town rivalry, much less foreign policy.
Incorrect alidan, we could move our outsourcing to India, but we can't move the debt there.
Our outsourcing already is in India.
They are clearly just being so arrogant as to blatantly insult the Americans at such a prestigous event, knowing full well that the ones in charge wont acknowledge the insult, yet most of the Chinese will know what it means, and I doubt all the Americans will know what it means but media sources such as this will spread it. Causing chaos amongst Americans and huge Pride amongst Chinese.
I do not want to be around when this extremely high tension wire between these 2 snaps. I'm also glad I'm not American. However I would be in full support of the Yankys against the Chinese if anything happens. No respect for the Chinese and every news article I read from any source just makes it worse.
China want to be gang rhaped by the rest of the world (O _ O)
I find it funny that they revel in such a low level insult, i guess its because of their inability to say anything against their own government that they are able to be moved by any kind of anti-government action even if it may be accidental and against the wrong side, due to the inability for them to do it themselves... in all seriousness, such an insult is on the "facepalm + revel at the stupidity" level, not nearly like "we are deeply insulted and must take serious action"...
seriously, China is a like a spoiled brat, when will they learn that their policies only cause their population to be less productive, and stupider than their full potential.
oh well, the reign of china is starting to slow down and I see it reversing in the somewhat near future, with the new tax laws that eliminate tax free foreign investments and the poor government handling of both foreign investments and economic policies, I see a decline in the chinese economy on the horizon. when that time comes, the "communist"(actually closer to fascist) chinese government will finally realize the epicly deep hole they dug for their grave by acting like everyone else was their bitches.
Ill have my pen ready to remark my world map, i say by 2050, ill have to add a few countries officially to my map like "Tibet" and "Taiwan" and rename the Peoples Republic of China to the United Providences of China.
@Anon 12:04 LOL hoping that China will get what they deserve for being an ass
Obama is quite skilled. He's planning to nuke china while they're sitting there laughing and watching the video.
If Chinese can express their national pride in such manner, I'd like to express mine by dickslaping them both.
Historically China has insulted countries and their diplomats by demanding they kowtow to Chinese diplomats and even objects that they say represent the emperor regardless of their position on the world stage. I think this is the biggest insult they've done to a head of state though.
Lol this is so amazingly stupid that all my serious thoughts evaporated... Oh wait. I had no idea chinese could get online anymore. Thats amazing in itself
China's gift of peace and goodwill: The finger
Lol I can only imagine them firing nukes towards every country while saying "We want peace!"
racist bitch
moral fag
"Online"
Wait... theses same chinese people "crowing" are smart enough to use the internet?
"To start... press any key... where's the 'any key'"?
yet u look at any honor calc class and they are all azn.
any key would be "any" key on ur keyboard stupid american
When you have 0 free time and get beaten, humiliated and punished by your parents if you don't bring home the best grades its quite easy to achieve that.
I for one prefer a real life you know... and I also prefer not being my parents bitch who jumps out the window at 30 because of repeated childhood traumas and a short wang...
hahaha
I'm moderately sure China doesn't fly children here to take Honors Calculus in High School, Anon.
And my honors Calculus class had mostly black students, so speak for yourself there, chief.
I see the ignorant are up in about, @12:20.
On topc: For some odd reason, I imagine Obama and everyone, after the party, making 'umad?' faces at China.
Anon
oh wait...
Chain BBBBBBBBBBBBBREAAK!!!
rebel scum
Chinese are racists just like the nazis were, if not worse. The chinese think they are different and have a different evolution and are superior to everybody else. It's being taught in schools there just like in nazi germany. Just wait and see until they start going crazy.
I always laugh at the ironic bigotry of such comments. You call the Chinese Nazi-esque racist, lumping them all together and generalizing them, in turn showing that the biggest racist here is in fact yourself.
I'm sure you've been through the whole curriculum in China and not pulling shit out of your asshole.
Get the facts straight, there's all types of racist people regardless of ethnicity.
how many times do I have to say it: Obama is a Anti-Colonialist. He is TRYING to destroy America's image and insult it at every turn!
There are a million ways to PRO-China while Not being ANTI-America. I have no probs with China.
lol @ ur FOXNEWS pic and comment...
FOXNEWS: The most successful troll group in the world short of the Chinese government.
I can imagine everyone working at FOXNEWS with trollfaces...
I have problem with China gov. They use their money to buy land from other countries (by bribing with trade agreement and stuffs behind the scene) even if the people of that country does not accept. They are greedy and now is the time for them to drop the "peaceful" mask.
Again, another Nazi Germany is on the rise to power.
Gorgonite Scum
Thank you megidola, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Can Artefact let me upvote you to "+2.0"?
You deserve it. :D
theres no way the government would have allowed that, I think Lang Lang will be catching a bang bang in the... jail jail
Try tang tang (it's close enough to the general area, if you know what I mean...)
You really think a country like China works that way? He'll become a freaking national hero right away.
If I didn't know better....I'd think China was picking a fight.
You can't spell QUALITY without capslock for the sake of emphasis.
This song originally came from a movie about the Korean war but the song itself doesn't even mention war. The line about 'jackals' being shot doesn't have to be a reference to Americans and is the only line in the entire song that mentions killing someone or something.
This song, from what I can tell, is just a song that is popular in China simply because of its patriotic tones. You could compare it to the myriad of American war tunes that extols the wonderfulness of America while shouting about killing its enemies. I'm sure some if not all of such songs had an enemy in mind when they were written but over the years its just a patriotic song that people like to sing.
Yes, this song is only being bent to the interpretations of what meaning it holds to the people who listen to it.
The same problem with Islamic extremists misinterpreting "holy war", the nazis taking what the bible says as if the Jewish community needed to be punished for the killing of Jesus Christ.
The interpretation for those who tie it to the Korean War, Chinese citizens of this sort view it as Nationalistic pride and repel the foreign jackals. There is a LOT of Nationalistic rhetoric being used in the Chinese media today and recently it has built up at least since the HAINAN ISLAND INCIDENT in 2001, which few people remember because of 9/11.
Such use of media can only help stir the powder keg of resentment.
The meaning may be up for interpretation, but the fact that a song that could be misunderstood for something anti-American at a meeting between the Presidents of America and China was approved in the first place shows bad taste.
china is so shameless.
lol interesting.
No,u guys are wrong,that song is a reminder that reminds China and USA were once stayed side by side against JPS,and they lay down and buried jps warlords. who are the wolves,as speak of Korea war,the Soviet union,the north Korean refugee,the USA,and the Japanese,by the way, the JPS always wolfing around Asia,this article only make the world see clearer a little anxious man staying in a dark corner worrying his US dad abandon him.
America needs China to survive by selling debts, and China needs America to pay their debts.It's totally oblivious now and now China is gathering their strength to reign over the world
So, chinese national anthem is the anti-Japanese songs, should they play it in Japan?
Well, I had learn chinese about few years. "my motherland" is a really nice song, but it is movie song which talk about the koren war.
Why the people like make the event become complicated?