Chinese Netizen Reactions To Jet Li Becoming Singaporean

jet-liFrom Mop:

Today I saw Singapore “Business Times” confirm that movie super-star Li Lianjie [Jet Li] has given up his plans for American citizenship, and has already taken Singapore citizenship. He has even spent 20 million Singaporean Dollars (about 95 million RMB) to buy a luxury residence in Singapore. After Gong Li, this is yet another Chinese film star taking Singaporean citizenship.

After seeing this report, Little Cat [nickname for Mop member, referring to self] could not help myself to applaud Jet Li’s decision! Big Brother Li has at least done three good things;

1: Reduced China’s population pressure. As everyone knows, China is the world’s most populous country. While it has had almost 20 years of birth control and has made notable achievements, the population pressure is still huge. Big Brother Li relocating his home abroad, no matter if it is a lot of people or a little people, can still be considered a contribution to reducing the population pressure for our country.

2: Helped a small remote country’s economic development. Singapore is a impoverished backwards tiny country. Big Brother Li traveling long and far to such a poor country, with the economic crisis in the background, and with one move invests almost a hundred million, stimulating the local housing market, expanding domestic consumption, and powering the provincial economy. Truly answering the call that individual wealth is not a blessing and that only when everyone is rich is it a blessing. Such a charitable act, how could Little Cat [I] not be moved?

3: Spread China’s outstanding culture around the world. Just like many various celebrity immigrants to Europe and America, stars are the same. When they take go to another country, they also take with them China’s long history and glorious culture. For the cultural development of other countries, one does what little one can to helpi those severely culturally backward countries (especially America, only 200+ years of history). Therefore, Big Brother Li is raising Singapore’s citizens’ character and culture and also has made an everlasting contribution.

At present, there are tens of thousands of people like Big Brother Li, whose own countries are so prosperous yet do not forget to relocate their entire families to “deep water hot fire” [underdeveloped] backward countries, establishing roots there, generation after generation of helping other impoverished backward countries. Their aspirations, to speak conscienciously, how many of you could accomplish them? Therefore, Little Cat wants to applaud Big Brother Li!!

Comments from Tianya:

纵马高歌:

I support Li Lianjie [Jet Li]!
This country, sight…
If you can leave, leave.
If you cannot leave, then change [the country].
When people are not allowed to vote, they vote with their feet.

sucking_vigilant:

He cannot be called a traitor.–>It is often said that Chinese culture is inclusive/tolerant, even to the point that foreigners are assimilated after invading, so is this actually praise or is it a kind of deep ridicule?

穷的只剩5毛:

Do not bring personal behavior to the level of countries.
What needs to be asked is whether or not all our official’s children have become foreigners [citizens of other countries].

南京长沙:

What bullshit One Foundation, he himself has already emigrated…

H3N3:

Resolutely support emigration, we absolutely must bring China’s 5000 years of civilization to the entire world. We must make them more Chinese, and unify the entire world.
Hehe, after saying that even I think I am being insane.

4pk:

In the past, I too would condemn his action as betrayal.
But now, I believe what he did was right, or at least not wrong.

天崖让我人格分裂:

Fuck, an American becoming a Singaporean, why are you getting so excited!

sunny112200:

FQ are just TMD mentally retarded~~Jet Li already emigrated to America in the 80s!! He was long ago already American, and for those who really have the ability, who wouldn’t want to emigrate? Don’t whine about sour grapes here.

yeemonbai:

He has his reasons for becoming a citizen of other countries. He also has no choice, of those who have the ability, who TM would want to be a ZG person [Chinese]!
However, he still loves his own country [China]. His One Foundation has done quite a lot of good.

蓼浪:

China’s hukou problem truly makes people sad.
The moment a person is born, there is automatically a huge unfairness…and they talk about fairness, harmonious…
Truly talking nonsense…ridiculous.

控制者说:

I support Jet Li, living like a person, what is there not to like about the freedom to discuss/speak?

年少萤火虫:

When I first heard that such a large bunch of celebrities were actually foreign nationals,
I also completely could not understand.
However upon reconsideration,
were I to have the same circumstances as them to gain foreign citizenship
I definitely would also get foreign citizenship.

Nowadays the foreigners in China
are absolutely outstanding/high-class people.
While those Chinese people who are here the hosts of this land
are generally true rabble.
Just moving between cities requires a temporary residence permit.
Truly mysterious.

0哈根达斯0:

Those without a voice become singers, those without a body become models, those without expressions become performers, those without plots become serial dramas, yet those with plots are the news, and the most yellow, most violent are all China’s Communist Party! Actually, I love my motherland, but now I am very shameless/rogue. Although I have been a fenqing before, I am now already numb…

吻合:

I have discovered that there are a lot of idiots/swine here.
If you want to emigrate, just take your money and go find an immigration company.
Who is stopping you from emigrating? Is it the D ["dang", Communist Party] or the ZF ["zheng fu", govenrment] stopping you?
It is not that China does not let you go, the key is how are you doing [financially] in China? If you are not even a dog fart, no other country would want you anyway!

刘老老_:

Jet Li is a piece of trash, a fraud!
Being charitable means to contribute, but his One Foundation only uses his face to collect everyone else’s money, truly a despicable idea. This kind of person leaving is good!

心即天崖:

Mr. Li of course has the freedom to be a foreigner, and we will in the future treat him as one of China’s international friends. Indeed, China’s passport is not as convenient as foreign countries’; however when I think of the love that Qian Xuesen, Deng Jiaxian, and the older generation of scientists who abandoned their prosperity and influence breaking through layers and layers of difficulties to return to a poor and blank secluded China, we should respect Mr. Li’s choice, but also not forget those who are more deserving of our respect: Mr. Qian, Mr. Deng.

agpwithlock:

Those countries are more developed than China in one aspect, and people always want to head towards where things are better; Another key reason I’m afraid is that right is that China does not show people the hope of becoming developed. A society of several thousands of years just always repeating and repeating [rise and fall].

平滑侧齿龙:

Loving the country does not mean loving the party. If the party was the country, then I would give up [the country].

四级士官:

As a fan of the Dalai Lama, he should get Indian citizenship!
For his personal benefits, he has rejected India and given up his own faith/beliefs. Despicable!

chepiaonan:

Singapore is not bad.
In 1998, when Indonesia persecuted Chinese people and raped many Chinese women,
what did our country do but to seal off the news and ignored it.
Our embassy was not willing to offer any help.
Only Singapore sent a naval vessal to Indonesia to pick up Chinese refugees.
If I were Jet Li, I too would want to be Singaporean.
It too is a [ethnic] Chinese country, but being in another country, his life has protections.

Some netizens have also said that Singaporean citizenship can save tax money so maybe that is why Jet Li became Singaporean.

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  1. Fully support his decision. Jet Li is all heart. People who are criticizing him after all he’s done for China are just ignorant and bitter.

    • I completely agree. I am baffled by mainland chinese people’s off-tangent thinking! They seem to think jet li’s a traitor just because he gave up chinese citizenship… If anything it’s the opposite, singapore’s the closest you can get to china, outside hk and taiwan.

      I’m singaporean chinese, and many of us respect jet li very much. He’s done a great job of promoting chinese kungfu and culture. But if there’s a brain drain in singapore, we blame the government and not the innocent civilians!

  2. “It is often said that Chinese culture is inclusive/tolerant”

    wait, what?

  3. “When people are not allowed to vote, they vote with their feet”

    I love that quote

  4. I don’t see what the big deal is, hes going from one Chinese country to another Chinese country.

    • China is the ONLY Chinese country in this world. Go back to school before you post again!

      • Singapore is a city state made of by a majority of ethnic Chinese. go back to school retard. period

      • singapore is 75% chinese, and is pretty much a textbook example of a modern “Confucian” state.

        • no, my dear. Singapoure is 100% singapourean.

          • This is all semantics; people getting worked up over nothing.

            To clarify, Singapore is it’s own country. China doesn’t own it or govern it in any way. People who speak some Chinese dialect make up around 75% of Singapore’s population: that’s what people MEAN to say when they say “Singapore is a Chinese country”. Those people are NOT Chinese and not even necessarily ethnic Han. Semantics. Silliness. I think you can all understand each other but just want to argue.

          • I hope by now you have been corrected, Singapore doesn’t have a ‘u’ in it.

      • Hahaha, u chinese pricks are so funny

    • Taiwan is also a chinese country, in as much as it is a seperate country inhabited by Chinese people, not in as much as it is part of the Mainland. Go Back to school yourself Hullet, u massive turd sucker!

      • You have a point, but why would you phrase your response in such a way? Are you trying to correct Hullet or turn him against you? I know that (s)he started the name calling, but you could have been the one to bring the conversation back to earth.

      • Hi DaMa, where the f*&^ did i offend you!? You are welcome to ask me to go back to school but why mess with sucking me!?

        You see, China Chinese have a BIG freaking problem.
        They call it CULTURAL while I call it STUPIDITY FILLED WITH EXCUSES.

        You think now is still Middle Kingdom & the whole world (tian xia) belongs to China?

        You mentioned YOURSELF the country Taiwan so they are Taiwanese (Chinese). Not as in the pure Chinese. Even now after the returns, China Chinese still call HK Chinese as Hongkongers. Likewise Macau. They are predominantly Chinese origin, now returned to be part of China but still call SAR!!!

        Stop contradicting yourself. What are the people of Taiwan called? What are the people of Singapore called? What do you call ABCs and ABKs? Chinese?

        So what do you call the nationals of China? Chinglish?

  5. It’s for the sake of his daughter’s education.

  6. “Singapore is a impoverished backwards tiny country” what idiot wrote this? Singapore is leagues ahead of China in regards to development.

  7. Jet Li is my idol. He is one of the very few stars that doesn’t seem to have a thumb up his ass. I met him and was really down to earth. In fact, he was even nice enough to hand out for a little while. I have heard a lot of suprising stories about other stars. Jackie Chan, etc. But, Jet has always been on cool. God bless him. I hope he has a good time in Singapore.

  8. J(/@,|,e\)L--SPACEMAN

    Yeah, stepping away from my usual cynical, hating, and delusional self, I have to admit Jet Li is pretty cool dude. He is a cool Buddhist with really “geniune stuff.” Respect to the man.

  9. J(/@,|,e\)L--SPACEMAN

    No, I can understand a little bit about nationalism. Although, I don’t subsribe to it myself. But, people are people and they do people stuff. Nationalism is a human phenonmon. It’s like your home team.

    People like me who despise the notion of nations…well, have problems. Believe me, I want to be nationalistic, I just can’t find it in myself to do it. I don’t really belong. I can’t really be nationalist. Am I going to be nationalist about China? I’m a stranger there. America? I’m an immigrant.

    *shrugs*

    I want to trade places with some poor kid really. I don’t deserve anything.

  10. “Nowadays the foreigners in China
    are absolutely outstanding/high-class people.”

    This person either craftily sneaked in one trenchant sarcastic remark in an otherwise earnest comment or has met a completely different group of foreigners here than I have.

  11. i can totally understand why.
    jet li needs to travel lots
    with a chinese passport, it’s N times harder to travel
    visa applications everywhere, so annoying

    • haha “n倍” – did you use that expression in english before you came to China? Or are you Chinese?

    • Actually most Chinese film stars tend to get a Hong Kong passport, even less strict visa/travel rules. Like many here I suspect Singapore is mostly for tax reasons.

      • HK passport has become a 2nd class passport eversince 1997. Most of the prominent families in HK are carrying British, Canadian, Austrlian or US passports – just look at Richard Li. Only the poor in HK carry SAR passport – which overtime is no different from a Chinese passport as more and more countries will put restriction on it. Sad to say – the same is true of HK as a city.

      • I agree, I don’t think he’d have any problem becoming a u.s citizen, but the tax would be excessive, I presume.

  12. I feel sorry.We lost a good acter.

    But,can you vote in Singapore?

    • Yes, you can vote in Singapore.

      • Er, if you mean vote as in Iranian Voting.

        There’s no secret ballot in Singapore, and the ruling party (PAP) sues to oblivion any credible opposition. Since 80% of the population live in government housing, vote for the wrong guys and whoops, welcome to the ghetto.

        It’s much classier oppression, but it’s still oppression.

        • Well, there are still votes. Though they are not very common, those who get to vote can make it count, I must say.

          What in the world is Iranian voting? I’m amused … I doubt the Iranians I know will be as amused though.

    • no one lost anything except the chinese government. he’s still ethnic chinese. the only thing that changed is that he’s not a citizen of china. so in a political sense he’s not chinese anymore. But if the chinese government was so good he should be proud to keep chinese citizen. obviously he hasn’t kep chinese citizenship, which means the chinese government isn’t all that great.

  13. What is wrong with this MOP guy. Calling Singapore ‘impoverished backwards tiny country’, it is a very nice country, good development, and it is obviously not poor. Should read news more often, not only celebrity gossip.

  14. “Helped a small remote country’s economic development. Singapore is a impoverished backwards tiny country…”

    Singapore is a backward country??? The country is one of the “Four Little Dragon of Asia” with HK, South Korea and Taiwan….you mainland Chinese people must be so ignorant due to your heavy-handed media censorship by you dictatorial, unscrupulous and hypocritical government!!!

    BTW…I’m not from Singapore…I’m from HK…

    • Pity they didn’t teach you about parody and sarcasm in HK. Heh, and you call the mainlanders ignorant.. sheesh.

    • meh, what do u expect, i know a hk guy who thinks the correct term for someone from hong kong is honky

    • “what?” is a dumb ass. like many hk people, he/she doesn’t have any sense of humor. he doesn’t understand the author was being sarcastic. in fact, most hk people are very boring – other than talking about real estate, money, office politics, they can bore you to death. you can’t expect them to know what is a “parody”.

  15. “Li Lianjie [Jet Li] has given up his plans for American citizenship”

    And the US is totally heartbroken that we lost the “Cool Buddhist”, Who? Huh?. What a weird thing to say, “Cool Buddhist”.

    • J(/@,|,e\)L--SPACEMAN

      he is a “cool” Buddhist because…I have seen his views on life. They are cool and they seem really genuine. My opinions of course.

      What is so weird about that? How about cool Muslim. Cool Christian. Cool whatever. SO???

      • Chill. Yes, your opinion. Just never heard someone say “cool” Buddhist or Muslim, Christian or whatever.

        Usually the word “cool” gives a feeling they have beliefs that are more about pleasing others, popular opinions, or society in general and not really being grounded in true hard faith or ideas which can be very unpopular or perceived as un-hip or P.C.

        I don’t know anything about his Buddhist beliefs. I am just saying the word “cool” seems a bit awkward that’s all.

  16. Like Taiwan said “Singapore got no LP!”

    • You got the quote wrong. Taiwan claims Singapore is carrying China’s LP.”Po Tiong Gok e LP”

      Whatever…I look forward to Taiwan’s forthcoming unification with the motherland…:)

      • You do realize, this is not in the close future, as in you life span. Taiwan is a democracy, 7 times richer than the Mainland. (GDP/capita) and mentality is vastly different (the people who fled Mao were the intellectual elite, otherwise assassinated by the communists) which means integration is very, very, very far away. Maybe in 200 years, if things take a considerably different turn, there might be a unification. Good luck in any event! :D

        • well thats a fresh one, siting intellectual ‘class’ as a major obstacle of ‘integration’. i wonder how every other nation in the world work then. not to mention the sweeping statement about who fled the communist, disregarding the fact that, many of the first generation CCP members were all from the intellegencia. bravo son, i can definately see all brains on this one. good luck trying to integrate! :D

      • i look forward to taiwan taking over the mainland. bitch.

      • The republic of China is already part of China. Their olympic team carries the name of Chinese Taipei, if they win, they will play the Chinese National Anthem. The republic of China is not even a sovereign country. Even the UN has rejected their plea for independence, the onus is on the Republic of China to establish independence and not the otehr way around.

        • youve obviously never been to taiwan. they do those things because they HAVE to, because for now its easier to not piss off china. NOBODY in taiwan wants to be part of china, NOBODY. if you say they are chinese they get mad at you. when chinese officials came for talks, people physically attacked them and protested outside all the sites for days. you obviously dont know what youre talking about.

          • Your post is hilarious. Do you think it matters how the Republic of China views the PRC? It’s irrelevant. It doesn’t disprove anything that I have said in the previous post.

          • Again Mike, it is irrelevant. You have been reading between the lines. I think i can summarise the points to you in two discrete dot points.

            1.) The Republic of China is not a sovereign country. It is a rebel state of the Peoples Republic of China.

            2.) One China is already in force. The ‘onus’ is on the Republic of China to disprove this.

            I strongly urge you to use the dictionary to find the definition of onus. I think this may be where the misunderstanding arises.

        • The republic of China is already part of China.–

          But Formosa Island with formosians are not.

          • whatever. i still stick with the above comment by beijinger and myself…if you havent lived in taiwan or have family thats taiwanese etc then you probably have a hard time understanding what its like. but if you have a brain you should be able to understand why no country is willingly going to give up sovereignty to be part of china. i mean…please. if you like china so much go live there. forever. leave tw alone, there is no such thing as “one china” here.

          • ps the reply was to charles…

            also….”Do you think it matters how the Republic of China views the PRC? It’s irrelevant.”

            um……………well if china is going to persuade tw to reunite then it definitely does matter. and the US + other countries are certainly not going to permit reunification by force so…..your above comment seems kind of stupid.

          • Mike I will segregate my answer in two posts, so you have a change to refute either . Although I don’t think that it will be possible because I am not subjectively expressing my opinion. I am merely reciting facts.

            1.) In my first post, I referred to your comments as being ‘irrelevant’. The irrelevancy i refer to deals with the public dissent towards the PRC. It does not change any preexisting fact of One China.

            2.) China does not wish to reunite with Taiwan. It wants to maintain One China by refusing to let Taiwan declare independence. The US recognises very clearly that there is only one China. However, they are bound to defend Taiwan based on an international defence treaty.

            I understand that you may have lived in Republic of China and experienced the general adverse sentiment towards The PRC. I have friends who are from Taipei and they feel the same way. However, it is one thing to want to declare independence and resent PRC sovereignty. It is another thing to declare independence and be recognised as a sovereign state. The Republic of China hasn’t jumped the hurdle yet, so despite public resentment of the PRC, this does not change anything.

    • When I lived in taipei a few years ago I, loved that 台客 stuff and I thought the Mainland was like a big hungry chicken that wanted to “peck up” little taiwan. Now, after living in shanghai for a few years, I gotta admit that I feel differently. I still think taiwan has all kinds of LP for sticking it to the man, but come on guys… you’re getting closer and closer to ONECHINA, I mean just do it.

      • ok, so tell me, when was taiwan ever a part of china? there was no such thing as “one china” in the first place. thats what people dont understand. taiwan hasnt been part of china since there was an emperor. tw is as much a part of china as tibet, xinjiang, and other obviously not-chinese places that the mainland forcibly occupies.

        • Mike, I respect your loyalty towards The Republic of China. However, it is important always, to maintain an objective view towards history and not let apparent bias overwhelm your opinion.

          1.) It is a fundamental mistake to amalgamate Xin Jiang, Tibet and Taiwan into the same category. The complexity of the history of each Chinese region is too distinct to be generalised. I personally don’t agree with any of your statements. Neither the UN, USA, Australia or any developed country that I am aware of recognises either region to be independent of China.

          2.) Regarding point 1, Taiwan is a part of China, like Tibet and Xin Jiang.

          Above were the facts, below I will include a little bit of my opinion: It does seem fairly sad to me, that a region such as the Republic of China, which has its own economy, style of government and currency could be coerced to being contained in the One-China regime.

          Aside from the US government supporting One China explicitly in public statements, many international companies including Sony (first i could think of)also confirm one China.

          Personally if I was born in the Republic of China I would want to seek Republic of China Independence. However, I would only want this to happen if I was well off, had too much spare time on my hands and wanted something fun to fight for.

          Something fun for you to watch in your free time

          • Charles, RE: Sony and One China

            I also remember McDonalds (at least I think it was them) running into some trouble in the mainland for listing Taiwan under their list of countries in the region choice list on their website (you know what I mean? Like when a website asks “where are you from” and then directs you to that region’s version of the site). Mainland Chinese made such a stink that they changed it right away. They don’t want to get boycotted in what has become a great market for them. Likely the same sort of thinking for Sony and the US gov’t.

  17. Singapore is more Chinese than China, the population must be at least 75% Han and they haven’t been corrupted by Marxism.

  18. WHy was Gong Li attacked and called a traitor and yet Jet Li is supported? Ridiculous. Double standard

  19. Until this day, I find the people in Hong Kong (HK) to be amusing. The majority of HK citizens like to believe they are an independent country, which is of course, not the case. They look down upon Mainland Chinese despite their own flaws, which are arguably worse.

    Racial stereotyping has always been the precursor to unnecessary hatred, discrimination and unfairness. While stereotypes are gross generalisations of particular traits exhibited by a class of people, they do not capture the entire population in that class.There is a danger of having a pre-conceived view of a class of people which may be inaccurate and discriminatory.

    Nonetheless, stereotypes are helpful because they help reflect the general characteristics of the majority of the population that are attributed to those classes of people. It is useful method for our mind to process information with lack of more subjective information. To this extent, stereotypes are often, but not always, more accurate than inaccurate if we use the entire population as a sample size.

    As far as stereotypes are concerned, I agree with the general consensus that Chinese people have different ideals on personal hygiene and have a strong sense of patriotism.

    However, the Chinese people in the city of Hong Kong have a different set of moral standards. I find it quite amusing to watch them clash with people in the other cities of China.

    Here in Australia, the majority of University students from Hong Kong exhibit general attributes:

    1. 99% study accounting but don’t actually go to classes.

    Comparatively, 95% of mainland Chinese also do accounting and do not attend classes. However a great number of mainland Chinese also do engineering.

    2. Most students from Hong Kong spend their entire time in university yelling ‘pok kai’ to each other at least 20 times a day to their friends and their friends’ friends, which normally adds up to over 100 times a day.

    3. The first thing that Hong Kong students come to Australia is to buy an old sports car like a civic. Then they spend the next two years at university modifying the rims and exhaust in an attempt to rice the cars up.

    4. When they aren’t ricing up their cars, the remainder of their time is involved in playing pool or wasting their parent’s money in the casino.

    5. A Hong Kong student will normally be found wearing

    a.) Black framed glasses – to try and look smart even though they aren’t

    b.) Wearing a hat or spiking their dyed hair up with clay. They succeed in having the most dirty looking hair with the exception of people with dreadlocks or possibly some Japanese people.

    The girls will normally be found with dyed hair, a cap, t-shirt, converse shoes, jeans and a Gucci bag. They think this is stylish but in actual fact 99% of them wear the same thing.

    6. Students from Hong Kong will not socialise with any other social circle. They will speak cantonese to every other Chinese person regardless of whether the other person understands.

    On the other hand:

    1.) Most mainland Chinese wear the clothes they bought at a budget price in the fake stores in China. Chinese males like to wear the same clothes at least twice in the same week.

    2.) Mainland Chinese men normally do not dye their hair or style it.

    3.) When mainland Chinese people do not go to class, they work at a Chinese restaurant part time to pay off their school fees.

    4.) The remainder of their time is spent watching movies, singing karaoke and eating with friends.

    5.) Most mainland Chinese try to find the cheapest accommodation around the campus regardless of whether the accommodation is habitable.

    So with regard to the stereotypes of both people from the city of Hong Kong and the rest of China, I really don’t see why people from HK need to think they are superior to their other Chinese counterparts.

    My personal opinion is that while there are many hardworking Chinese people in Australia (albeit there will be contrary examples), I am yet to see a Hong Kong student, through the entirety of my years in university, that has truly exhibited any intellectual qualities or motivation aside from ricing cars, playing pool and gambling.

    The majority of Hong Kong people I’ve met have been superficial, lazy, lack a sense of responsibility, materialistic, racist, and selfish. As far as racial tolerance is concerned, Mainland Chinese have much more apparent respect to other countries including Hong Kong, than they are given in return.

    The western influence that was inherited through British occupation has since evolved into a disintegration of the values of filial piety, which has been replaced by the western notion of benefit-detriment analysis. For example, sending old people to nursing homes because it alleviates the burden (not saying this happens in HK). The western influence on HK citizens is often reflected in their ideology of paying separate bills when eating out, lack of bonding between friends, and also explains why most HK men will seek wives from outside of HK and mostly from China.

    • J(/@,|,e\)L--SPACEMAN

      Agreed. I hate HK student chicks. They all be bitches. Cold-hearted & ruthless bitches. Who think they are all that. They ain’t shit.

      All of them basically, ain’t shit. Thinks they are all that, ain’t shit. I’m so glad I’m out of school. School blows with them. It blows with everyone else too, though. School just blows, period.

      • J(/@,|,e\)L--SPACEMAN

        Haha. I hate them!!! The only people I liked in school were my TRUE homies. Everyone else really blew big chunks. Claim they’re your friends but they’re all lame back-stabbers who thinks they are the shit, when they are ALL SHIT. Fuckers.

        You learn who are real and who are fakes. A lot of fakes.

      • What about your own country sluts and whores, spreading across the world like a plague, but have to thank them if not there won’t be cheap prostitutes around.

    • Funny thing, that. The only girl from HK I knew (she left for art school) barely talked and got stuff done. I got to thinking they were all like that until I noticed the Edison Chen incident. But jeez, bitter much? For both sides? HK DOES have more to show for its period of British rule than the mainland has under its current regime, after all. And on the topic of them thinking they’re “independent”- that’s what happens when you put up barriers like that. Stop running Customs/immigration checks when crossing into HK from the mainland, then you have more of a case.

    • if tibet is chinese then HK is British.

      I like the way you end up by blaming it on the British.

      If Britain had governed the whole of China and not just Hong Kong then China would have been the world’s richest country by the 1980′s… and Jet Li wouldn’t have emigrated to Singapore!

      • If Britain had governed the whole of China and not just Hong Kong then China would have been the world’s richest country by the 1980’s

        yea, just like india

        • They (eventually) let go of India because they wanted independence, some 30-40 years before they let go of HK (on the insistence of the Chinese government- the locals were happy enough with being British after seeing things like the Cultural Revolution and the event-that-must-not-be-named happen; India had no such thing happen).

          • >India had no such thing happen

            HAHAHA…yeah nothing happened under the British Raj, _absolutely_ nothing.

          • I don’t think you’re following my train of thought the way I am. What I mean is that because the British Raj was as bad as you’re implying, the people of India started demanding independence. On the other hand, Hong Kong was different in that the UK government took a more hands-off approach to governing the area and the PRC government looked really crappy and restrictive right around then (because let’s face it, straight-up independence for HK was NOT going to happen no matter what).

          • >I don’t think you’re following my train of thought the way I am.

            Your train of thought is flawed from the getgo. The British ruled HK like a colony and jailed pro-democracy activists in the almighty name of “stability”. The irony is HK is more democratic under Chinese rule then it has ever been under British rule.

    • Charles, what you are seeing, is just a small part of HK people in Australia. I’m sure your opinion will change when you could live in this part of the world…. I did.

      • I have travelled to Hong Kong on a few occasions, however I’ve noticed the arrogance of the general population and their general ego-complex. Not to mention the superfical society that they live in which is reflected in their entire culture.

        • The Chinese I’ve met while studying out of Singapore are generally quite eager to promote certain aspects of their local culture … not necessarily that of the entire China but their home region.

          Nonetheless, they are also very fond of the Chinese way of life.

          @Charles: can you name me a country that isn’t superficial or materialistic that’s got any money to speak of? What’s your criteria for calling a society ‘superficial’?

    • Racial stereotyping—
      lost ma here ma hitler!

    • Here’s the deal, the HK students that end up in Aussie Unis are ones that don’t make it into local HK Unis, their parents have to buy them an education overseas, and Australian Unis are comparatively cheaper than ones in the UK and US. So what does that tell you? it tells you that these kids are at the bottom rung, put it mildly, there’re lazy and dumb, and given the opportunity to live away from their parent, they go nuts.
      Better quality HK kids go to either Ivy leagues or local HK Unis.

      • Yep that’s true. Australian are cheaper and not as good as UK or American ones. But Australian uni’s are still better than HK ones at least according to world rankings. So i see we get the crappiest rich students, not a good combo.

  20. This is a very funny topic. Lots of very funny comments.
    The point we should all be paying attention to is that Jet Li doesn’t want to be Chinese anymore! What does that say. As for the ‘spreading China’s glorious culture’ comment…. come on. It was THE CHINESE who went on a retarded rampage and destroyed all the glorious things about this place. They called it a cultural revolution. These days, Chinese ‘culture’ is dead. You killed it yourselves. Blame your grandparents. The only thing Chinese people overseas spread is the worrying justification of an immoral government.

    Well done Jet Li…. you got out.

    • J(/@,|,e\)L--SPACEMAN

      I SOOOOOOO agree with you man. Being Chinese sucks. What is there to love about being Chinese???? I’m just paying for the STUPID ASS CRAP that my STUPID_ASS ancestors done. That’s retarded.

      I don’t care. Why do I have to pay for the stupid crap they have done in the past??? Hmm say the past 500 years.

      Is this self-hate? Who cares? The point is…I have to pay for the stupid crap. Not ask what Chinese has done for you but what you done for the Chinese? LOL. Stupid. It sucks. I don’t need you to do anything for me…except maybe not being TOTAL DUMBASSES. Thanks. I don’t want to pay.

  21. China is just stuck with Ziyi Zhang now? Damn!

  22. singapore is as good as shanghai

    apart from that.. theres NOTHING good about it

    btw… I live in Australia

    tons of those singaporean peasants come over hear for a better life.

    • i called australian police to take you home to PRC because you are not australian.

      • @yellow master race: Uh, OK.

        @Overseas Chinese: so if it’s as good as shanghai and there’s nothing good about it apart from that, what’s so good about Shanghai? I’m confused.

    • yes, because you can’t even spell and you have shitty grammar. wonder why it’s so easy for singaporeans to emigrate? because we have the MONEY, you dumbass. our gdp (ppp) per capita is even higher than america’s. dumbass

      • I notice a certain irony in your post criticising grammar when you capitalise entire words but not sentences. Please work on your English instead of posting like someone hit you on the knee-cap, thanks.

  23. Gong Li is still living in Beijing folks. Saw her at the Armani shop a week ago. What a beauty!

  24. actually singapore is kinda good.. peaceful yea. his daughter, jane is in the same latin dancing class as i am. LoL i now then realise.

  25. @Kai

    Kai says: The guy’s post was a parody. He means the opposite of what he’s saying.

    A parody of what?

    A parody is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, or author, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

    Although I’m not a native speaker, I’ve studied your language. I believe you mean the guy is using satire or irony.

    Satire is the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.; a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.

    • Wow, I can not click enough +1′s on this gold.

    • Wow, you’ve studied my language? Damn…

      Definitions for:

      - parody

      Definitions for:

      - satire

      Since you’re not a native speaker, I won’t fault you, but the fact is that I’m perfectly correct in my use of “parody” just as you’re not wrong in suggesting “satire.” I could’ve used either but I used “parody” because his piece is parodying those bleeding-heart paternalistic comments often made about, well, helping impoverished backwards nations/communities/people. You’ll note that even the definition you chose INCLUDES satire and irony.

      How could I have meant satire or irony when I used parody that includes satire and irony? I do occassionally make a mistake in word choice, but you’re jumping the gun here. What do you think?

  26. I don’t see why Jet Li becoming a Singaporean citizen is such a big deal. He just left China to be with….. more Chinese ppl. Singapore is pretty much another part of China. Does anyone know the exact number of ethnic Chinese that make up the population? Everyone I know from that place is Chinese. Their president is even ethnically Chinese! I’m even surprised that no one on the mainland has actually said anything about trying to incorporate it into the PROC!

    Chinese ppl getting fed up with the system here and leaving is not a new phenomenon. There are millions of Chinese ppl that have been doing this for 100′s of years. Go to Singapore, Thailand, or the Philippines and find out how and why those Chinese ppl decided to settle there. On top of that, a lot of those guys are well-off and successful.

    If there are any Chinese ppl out there reading this that are afraid of “betraying” your country by moving and becoming a citizen of another one, just do it and you’ll most likely be better off. It won’t be easy but who ever said life was easy? You can’t be afraid of getting screwed over. That’s a part of life too. Again, there are millions of Chinese out there that have left that don’t regret it.

    • Uh, no, S’pore is NOT “just another part of China.”

      Light years different.

    • china is soooo not a part of china, for once we are all a very mixed country so if your small brain can’t accept that than I suggest a shotgun to your skull will clear things up.

    • Don’t be surprised Pal, I think the main reason why PRC didn’t try to incorporate SIngapore yet, is because it is too faraway from mainland. It’s a goodluck for Singapore. Instead, now it’s so close in relationship with USA it can be considered as USA’s 51th state.

      On another note, I think Singapore also lucky it wasn’t discovered by European like America and Australia. Look at what happened to those 2 lands’ native people, they’re refugees in their own land now, and their cultures means nothing but carnival for the whitemen. I guess at least Chinese destroying their own culture in Cultural Revolution, unlike Europeans who loves to destroy others’ culture.

      • “I think Singapore also lucky it wasn’t discovered by European like America and Australia.” Uh… You do know how Singapore was founded, right? It seems to be doing just fine all the same.

    • Singapore’s president is an Indian. Get your facts right fool.

  27. (though her husband is ethnic Chinese too, right?).

    Right. But I think she was called a traitor and a slut. Stupidity all around.

  28. Singapore is where rich, international Chinese go to be rich, international, and Chinese.

  29. Lee Kuan Yew has no illusions about this, either. Here’s what he said about the authoritarian nature of Singapore:

    “In multiracial societies, you don’t vote in accordance with your economic interests and social interests, you vote in accordance with race and religion.”

    AKA Chinese are a separate race from Malays, Indians, etc. and their rule of Singapore will continue.

  30. Those who don’t love their country. Those who don’t admire their country are not humans. Sheeps grazing the grass where ever they find it. These are indeed traitors.

  31. He did it for tax reason… Singapore has one of the lowest taxes in Asia and maybe the world. With the millions he made, he is paying a lot of taxes to the chinese government. Another reason is education..Singapore has probably the best education system in Asia.. Last reason is Passport.. Singaporean passport don’t need any Visa to travel to the US and to almost 95% of the world while the only country that Chinese Passport don’t need a Visa to travel to is CHINA

  32. Helped a small remote country’s economic development. Singapore is a impoverished backwards tiny country.

    Have you done your homework or are you just bloody stupid. Singapore is rated one of the highest in asia so think before you write that shit down.

  33. Yea, I agree with the comments about immigrated HK brats. The most superficial out of all Chinese and they an arrogant bunch too. The girls in HK think they all better than Chinese so they jock all the foreign cock, then mostly all the rich/successful locals are the ones that get the HK girls. HK guys cross the border into Shenzhen thinking they hot shit…a lot of them get killed out here by the Mainlanders.

    HK=英国狗

    • “HK guys cross the border into Shenzhen thinking they hot shit…a lot of them get killed out here by the Mainlanders.” I think that says more about the mainlanders than the HK people. Stuff like this doesn’t help China’s image.

  34. check out Jim Rogers, a billionaire, moved to Singapore.

  35. i wouldn’t critisized his taking singapore citizensip if he just want to offer his children good education.
    if a guy doesn’t love their children never mention patriot.

    what i don’t agree is he spent 98 million for his house and he is running one foundation. i know he is rich.he tries to be kind. why not spend more money for the foundation to help more people.

  36. I support jet li 100%. Fawk china. haha

  37. I laugh when I read her perception of Singapore as backward country. Singapore’s standard and quality of life can be compared to Hongkong and Taiwan, their healthcare is definitely high class you see a lot of rich Indonesians and Malaysians run to Singapore for medical conditions.

    Compare to China mainland now, Singapore is definitely way better to live for. Their people averagely earns more than China. Maybe in ten-twenty years China will be able to reach Singapore current’s status, but until then it’s safe to say that the article is a brainwash article.

    • Singapore is a developed country, to this extent it can’t be compared with China. However, being a country with such a small landmass, there is very little room for increased economic growth. Especially given the fact that GDP has already reached peak potential and the majority of their output is interelated with trade.

    • -_- i am about to cry. why are there so many retards here??

  38. The Chinese passport is one of the most restrictive in the world. Constantly obtaining visas wastes time, money and energy. There is virtually no support when you are abroad regarding visa issuance resulting in the holder having to return to their city to apply.

    If someone has even the slightest chance of taking a passport that would give them true freedom, they would take it without hesitation.

    You are Chinese by blood, not by passport. Anyone who says otherwise only demonstrates complete ignorance.

    • No, you are Chinese if you choose to be Chinese. China doesn’t hold a single Nobel Prize, though several American-Chinese do. None of them give credit to the achievement to China, only to the United States, which provided them with the opportunities to explore their minds. Blood is indeed thicker than water, but love is stronger than water.

  39. I love Jet Li – the guy is eager and enthusiastic about absolutely everything in interviews. The first time I saw a live interview of him was on TV in Shanghai (in English), and I thought his English was kinda funny and a little like a middleschool kid who writes in all caps, like: “OMG! IT IS LIKE WE ARE ALLLLLL TOGETHER!” + huge grin (I don’t remember if he actually spelled out O-M-G or not.) I always assumed he spoke like that because English is his second language, but then I heard a second interview of him in Chinese, and he was still all “OMG!OMG!” + huge grin. Jet Li is the man. I bet his balls create elctricity like those lightning balls you see at the science museum.

  40. I think many of you have popped out of the context, so it would be nice if we can keep it solely on Mr Li!

    I am a Singaporean & every year, our government asks why are so many Singaporeans giving up their citizenship to migrate to other countries? What a good laugh here!

    Why not we start by asking why do you really think Jet Li first decided on an American then now a Singaporean citizenship? Let’s discard with the usual rebates of convenience for once.

    Why would a person bear to leave its birthplace?
    Even HK’gers scrambled back after 1997 when the inevitable did not turn out as they thought.

    Thank you.

    • “Even HK’gers scrambled back after 1997 when the inevitable did not turn out as they thought.”
      It’s called “inevitable” for a reason- it’s only been pushed back a few decades, and the government’s already starting to encroach on the rights that they had before.

  41. seems there is a lack of people saying their feelings are hurt…

    why are all chinese people paranoid? one person out of a billion plus moves abroad and they all go crazy. they hate the outside world because they want it and cant get to it. li has money to do what he wants, i would be jealous too if i was stuck in china.

    • I see what your saying, but I don’t think it’s as simple as they are jealous of the outside world (though that may be a factor). There may be some of that, too, for some, but I’d guess some people feel he’s somewhat of a “han jian” (traitor; maybe too harsh a word). Many a Chinese feels his/her identity is tied tightly to the motherland and to see another Chinese leave it behind may be confusing to them and they take it as an insult to the country (which, again is tied to their own identity).

      It seems a little weird to me, too, as I don’t care THAT much about my own nation of birth. To any Chinese, Mike and I are generalizing here, no insult meant if this does not describe your feelings.

    • Whoops, I totally misread your post. Sorry, Mike.

  42. After I read this, asking my self repeatedly ; even Jet Li has left this country why I am here. To me the answer is obvious, I do not have the assets now to do that.
    I am slowly recovering myself from the effect of the brainwash by the government / media /party which is still in the air like a virus. I feel it much difficult to face the problems than live blindfold.
    “Chinese people people like a frog living in the well” – this word by Boyang who wrote “Ugly Chinese” decades ago controlled our fate like a irremovable curse.
    Good luck Jet Li for moving out from the well, you bastard just give a heavy blow to thousands if not millions of people who are having hard time to fabricate reasons to live happily in China

  43. Jet Li is still chinese even if he wants to become singaporean. You cant change the blood :p Singaporeans are Chinese enough anyway :P

    • dont be stupid cockfeatures, chinese is not a race, Han is, he will always be Han regardless of where he lives, but not chinese.

      • I agree, DaMa (nice name, btw). And anyway, why is it important if he is still Han or Chinese or whatever? Do you think he was TRYING to change his blood? What difference does that make?

      • Clever cock, if Chinese is not a race, what then will you call a dialect?

        Try filling in Han as your race, & DaMa as your dialect in your arrival/departure card & see where that lands you. The Land of Big Mothers!

  44. I think everyone has their own rights.we are not him or she. To fo its own way.

  45. “1: Reduced China’s population pressure”

    Most silly thing i ever read on China

  46. I thought he was Korean?

  47. Singapore is utopia for the rich – good schools, safe, less tax, modern facilities and healthcare. Even the laws is in your favour. Say you ran over an average joe with your Ferrari, the courts will probably just fine you a token $1000. You are also not going to have angry mobs demanding justice as protest by even one person is considered illegal.

  48. i have seen these kind of debates on so many forums all over the world. Everyone is F*** blind to see what the “West” has done and the aftermath of its history.
    confused????!!!! look at the middle east!! all arabs, still fighting for race & nationality! Chinese, Taiwanese or Singaporean, its all the same people…..

    • “Us” and “Them” rhetoric… Not everyone is blind to the effect the “West” has had on places like Asia, the middle east, and Africa. I’m not sure what you are trying to say, here. Chinese, Taiwanese, and Singaporeans are all linked by their Asian identity and need to fend off the imperialism of the West?

      Get real. We’re all linked now by trade and fiber optic cable. These days, money trumps race 90% of the time, and China has a whole lot of money; no one’s going to seriously mess with them anytime soon, as hard as the US may try…

  49. Are the Chinese paying attention to Iran right now? What are their thoughts on the situation?

  50. Jet Li is getting Singaporean passport for one reason. That is for convenience such as visa free travel. The US passport is valuable but the taxman will always catch you out even if you are non resident in the US.

    It would be nice if PRC Passport rate the equivalent of say Singapore in the Henley index for passport visa free travel, then the travel document would worth keeping. Again, China has a billion plus, no other western countries want to risk visa free travel because they know that their borders are too porous for visa over stayers and illegal migrants.

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