Jackie Chan’s recent remarks that it was “good” for tsunami and earthquakes to devastate “a certain country” have sparked plenty of criticism.
According to the Hong Kong press, Chan’s recent trip to California to promote the US release of his “CZ12” movie saw him make more of his legendarily ill-judged remarks to media in local interviews.
Just which country he was referring to is not clear, but the context certainly seems to exclude quake-prone California and China:
“Americans and Chinese shouldn’t just join hands – the whole world should join hands.”
He clarified that this did not include a certain unidentified country:
“Even saying this, I think it is best natural disasters befall a certain country. Like giant earthquakes and tsunami.”
“In times like this the world will join together to aid them, which is great. Without earthquakes and tsunami nobody will do anything. Without them people just engage in conflicts under political pretexts.”
Chan is of course no stranger to making nakedly political remarks in support of China.
The “tasteless and insensitive” comments do not seem to have been well received in Hong Kong, but this pales to the response from Japanese:
“Everyone knows exactly what he is trying to say here.”
“Obviously he means Japan. He’s gone down in my estimation.”
“Please just keep him out of Japan.”
“Not this clown again!”
“He reminds me of Agnes.”
“Amazing he would say these things considering the situation in places like Sichuan.”
“This filthy Chinese dog’s vicious remarks are obviously directed against Japan.”
“Is he alright?”
“I want to believe he is being made to say these things.”
“He could be well meaning, if he is really that stupid.”
“He’s just inarticulate, really.”
“He means something like it would be good for aliens to invade because it would unite the planet.”
“This old fool still hasn’t learned to keep his mouth shut I see.”
“The CCP’s dog here is still barking I see.”
“I wouldn’t call this remark ‘accidental’ – it is pretty obvious where he is coming from and what he means.”
“He’s just an old fool now. Even the Chinese are criticising him.”
“He’s an idiot. It’s a shame he’s like this considering the positive impression his movies leave you with.”
When you pay over $3 million for that cause, I’d say it gives you the right to say whatever the hell you want: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jackie-chan-raises-33-million-174410
this is karma to the japanese.. they had it coming
fucking japanese… during world war 2 fucking japanese dogs killed most chinese and that fact didnt even been disclosed to those ugly japanese
This might be about Aceh on Northern Sumatra. The conflict between the rebels and Indonesian government has going on for so many years. The tsunami stopped the conflict.
great way for the title to take what he said out of context. He’s saying Japan’s uniting the world. Sure it’s not flowers during the process but no pain no gain doesn’t just apply to individuals but to the nation as well. It’s the same as saying it’s good world war II happened because fact is now we have a ton of advancement in medicine and other fields.