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Being rich and tough is just not enough, apparently. In a recent promotional tour for Fast&Furious 9, John Cena called Taiwan a country. Now he is on his knees kissing CCP freckle:
The 44-year-old American, who made the comment on Taiwanese broadcasting network TVBS during a promotional tour for the Hollywood blockbuster Fast & Furious 9, posted a video message on Sina Weibo clarifying his comments, though he did not directly mention Taiwan or its relationship with China.
“Hi China, I’m John Cena. I’m in the middle of Fast and Furious 9 promotions. I’m doing a lot of interviews. I made a mistake in one of my interviews. Everyone was asking me if I could use Chinese – [movie] staff gave me a lot of information, so there was a lot of interviews and information,” said Cena, who started learning Mandarin to help his wrestling promotion’s integration in China. He has since gone viral m
F9 movie tops 156 mln USD at China s box office
Xinhua
26 May 2021, 23:44 GMT+10
BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) Universal Pictures F9: The Fast Saga saw its total ticket sales in China top 1 billion yuan (about 156 million U.S. dollars) as of Wednesday, becoming the second foreign film to achieve the milestone this year after Godzilla vs Kong. The newest chapter in the Fast and Furious action franchise continued to dominate China s box office since its release on May 21, though its estimated total revenue from its China run has been downgraded by box office tracker Maoyan to around 1.5 billion yuan from over 2 billion yuan.
2021-05-26 13:05:33 GMT2021-05-26 21:05:33(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) Universal Pictures F9: The Fast Saga saw its total ticket sales in China top 1 billion yuan (about 156 million U.S. dollars) as of Wednesday, becoming the second foreign film to achieve the milestone this year after Godzilla vs Kong.
The newest chapter in the Fast and Furious action franchise continued to dominate China s box office since its release on May 21, though its estimated total revenue from its China run has been downgraded by box office tracker Maoyan to around 1.5 billion yuan from over 2 billion yuan.
The previous two entries in the series, The Fate of the Furious (2017) and Furious 7 (2015), grossed 2.67 billion yuan and 2.42 billion yuan in China, respectively.
CX Daily: Saving Peking University’s Fallen Tech Conglomerate
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In Depth: Saving Peking University’s fallen tech conglomerate
Peking University Founder Group Corp. (PUFG) was once the poster child for the entrepreneurial spirit that flowed from the hallowed halls of China’s elite universities in the 1980s as reform and opening-up fever gripped the country. Today, it’s bankruptcy reorganization after years of reckless expansion built on unsustainable debt, with some corruption thrown in for good measure.
Many of the other high-profile busted corporate flushes that have been through the bankruptcy restructuring or liquidation mill were victims of massive corruption or asset stripping by their previous owners, or weak players in their sectors or in industries with poor prospects. But PUFG has a portfolio of attractive assets in growth areas.
BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) Love Will Tear Us Apart, a Chinese romantic film, topped China box office chart on Thursday, raking in 99.8 million yuan (about 15.5