{"id":62440,"date":"2019-10-18T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=62440"},"modified":"2019-10-18T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T09:06:38","slug":"backlash-chinas-nba-bullying-going-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=62440","title":{"rendered":"The backlash over China\u2019s NBA bullying is only going to get worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"a1dbe\">When an NBA manager\u2019s tweet supportive of Hong Kong\u2019s protests triggered a\u00a0huge backlash in China, many observers of\u00a0 Chinese politics foresaw what would likely come next: Daryl Morey would get fired. It turns out that China explicitly asked the NBA to do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">In an interview at an event in New York yesterday (Oct. 17), NBA chairman Adam Silver said Chinese government officials requested that Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets, be dismissed for his now-deleted tweet, sent on the eve of the league\u2019s promotional events in China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">\u201cWe said there\u2019s no chance that\u2019s happening,\u201d\u00a0Silver said. \u201cThere\u2019s no chance we\u2019ll even discipline him.\u201d A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman\u00a0on Friday said\u00a0\u201cthe government never posed this requirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\"><div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">The NBA-China spat has drawn attention to the extent to which China\u2019s domestic censorship regime\u00a0is increasingly influencing speech beyond its borders. Companies for years have apologized to China, mostly for reasons such as how they represent Taiwan on their websites or garments, and been penalized by Chinese customers. The\u00a0 protests in Hong Kong, which have been continuing since June, offered more opportunities for corporations to fall afoul of China\u2019s official stance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">\u201cEvents in Hong Kong have just provided a case for various multinationals to have said or done something that the Communist Party finds objectionable, and their party-centric nationalism finds offensive,\u201d Steve Tsang, director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, said in an email to Quartz. \u201cHence, the frequency of attempted bullying against these companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">A slew of other companies\u00a0have also backpedaled\u00a0in the face of pressure from China over Hong Kong, with Tsang noting that given strained trade relations between the US and China, which show no signs of being resolved despite periodic positive declarations from US president Donald Trump, China \u201cin a sense priced in a potential negative backlash\u201d to its offense-taking.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b3916 _480bb c4750\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">\u201cWith this, the potential costs to China would appear more acceptable, and thus a more aggressive approach is likely to be followed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">But China may have underestimated the potential for pushback with its bullying of the sports league, which has\u00a0built a reputation for standing up for social justice rights\u00a0in the US. While the NBA did apologize\u2014more deeply in Chinese than in the English version of their post-tweet statement\u2014Silver, speaking from Tokyo last week, also made it clear that the league supported Morey\u2019s freedom of expression. While many had feared the NBA would completely cave as a host of Chinese partners announced plans to suspend cooperation, a backlash from fans and politicians outside China made it clear there were serious risks to the NBA from behaving in a manner seen as hypocritical in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">There are signs Beijing recognized that it misstepped in its nationalistic attack on the NBA, as fans in the US began\u00a0carrying signs\u00a0to games there to express support for both Hong Kong and freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b3916 _480bb c4750\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">Despite speculation that it would cancel them, China in the end allowed two NBA exhibition games to go ahead last week, and appeared\u00a0to curb nationalistic criticism of the league online. A reference to Hong Kong protesters\u2019 \u201cBe water\u201d slogan that made its way into a Brooklyn Nets video played at one of the games drew little comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">And an online campaign that sprang up last week, in which Chinese users posted comments praising the Sept. 11 terror attacks to show Americans how hurt they felt about Morey\u2019s tweet, also seems to have been at least partially censored as of this week. Meanwhile, a video posted on Weibo on Wednesday (Oct. 16) by the editor of the state-run Global Times tabloid from a trip to Hong Kong drew more moderate comments than have been typically seen online in China about Hong Kong in recent months. One commenter said they didn\u2019t \u201cwant to blame [protesters] as much as before. The core message is that the mainland and Hong Kong need to communicate with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">\n<p class=\"a1dbe\">But events this week, including the furor over Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James\u2019 comments suggesting Morey \u201cwasn\u2019t educated on the situation at hand,\u201d and now Silver\u2019s revelation over the firing request, show the fallout isn\u2019t over yet. This time it just might be China\u2019s turn to be on the receiving end.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b3916 _480bb c4750\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"a1dbe\"><em>Jane Li contributed to this post.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an NBA manager\u2019s tweet supportive of Hong Kong\u2019s protests triggered a\u00a0huge backlash in China, many observers of\u00a0 Chinese politics foresaw what would likely come next: Daryl Morey would get fired. 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