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Inside China, the government is cracking down on queer and feminist spaces. The Chinese-speaking diaspora is stepping up to create those spaces outside China.
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genocidal, communist government. targeting our supply chains all across the board. >> laura: speaking mandarin and cantonese. stephen mosher senator rubio, is on my podcast and he said he was concerned about a potential for some of our athletes to be subjected to perhaps a contagion while they are there. he does not put anything past the chinese having lived there and obviously so much work on human rights in china. are you concerned for their health in beijing? >> senator rubio: i can't speak to the medicine or the medical part of it. but i can tell you that we are not going to have transparency. even dr. some novel new disease or whatever, we would know about it. there's no weight the chinese government is going to be transparent about it. they were not transparent about it when the covid crisis first
ukraine until after the olympics is over. it's made it tougher on the russian military in ukraine because they were relying on the cold, hard ground to get their tanks across. >> judge jeanine: delaying two or three weeks before his friend xi jinping, you might say his backstage boss is complicating matters for the russian troops on the ground. there is a phrase. it means a backstage boss. that's kind of how the chinese see their role with putin. >> laura: how do you say it? say it again. >> [speaking mandarin] >> laura: [speaking mandarin] >> backstage boss. >> laura: i love how you purposefully -- mike speaks mandarin. i like how you purposely mispronounce putin's name.
>> bill: john siena apologizing to china after referring to taiwan as a country promoting his latest film fast and furious and then posted this video online spoken in mandarin. [speaking mandarin] >> bill: profile in courage for today. >> dana: don't forget what the chinese will do with a video like that in terms of propaganda after we did a big segment china being responsible for the global pandemic in the history of the planet. and that's the kind of sort of soft approach we're taking? >> we've seen how american companies bend to the wishes of the chinese communist party.
states, currently promoting the ninth fast and furious movie and in one interview he referred to taiwan as a country, that it would be the first country that will be able to see this movie. china did not like that he said that because any reference to taiwan being an independent country is they consider crosses their red line so john sina apologized in mandarin, pretty groveling apology. take a listen. [speaking mandarin] carley: q the backlash. ben schapiro tweeting taiwan is a country, hong kong should be free. if you're unwilling to say these things it might hurt your bottom line you're a pathetic coward. senator tom cotton responded by calling him pathetic on twitter. this is another example of how important china is to hollywood and big business in the us and