New Rule: Stop Kowtowing to China | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

and finally new rule someone has to tell china you can steal our trade secrets our software and our intellectual property but we draw the line at our hot freestyle skiers now if you've been like me over the past few weeks glued to your tv watching the olympics that makes exactly two of us we knew they were countries but who knew there was a superpower but i'm sure you've heard about american citizen eileen goo the beautiful model influencer and now gold medal winning skier who was born and raised here in america but who chose to ski in the olympics for china cool huh is it is that cool now choose to represent a totalitarian police state over america the olympics pretends to only be about sports but of course the games have always been a bit of a proxy war for which country has the best system and by choosing team china aileen gu became a living symbol of china's triumph over the west which wouldn't bother me so much if i thought china had triumphed over us in the ways that really matter but they haven't now we do have human rights issues right here at home we do but we're still at least for another three years a democracy based on freedom and they are an authoritarian surveillance state based on how'd you like to disappear for a few months like that tennis player who recently vanished for a while when she said she'd been raped by a government official we do still throw too many black people in jail but perspective matters china has basically jailed an entire ethnic minority the uyghurs a situation that both the trump and biden administrations has called a genocide america is not close to that and it's a cynical dodge to pretend that china's sins should be overlooked because we all do it no in 1997 britain returned hong kong to china with an agreement that beijing that from beijing that hong kong could retain its free press honest courts and democratic government well they lied democracy and freedom are being crushed there and china doesn't want anyone to talk about it and because so much money is involved no one does two years ago when the general manager of the houston rockets daryl mori tweeted fight for freedom stand with hong kong he was forced to apologize in america we're supposed to root for democratic government not apologize for it but the nba has a television deal with china worth a billion and a half dollars so lebron james said maury needed to be educated on the situation the situation being i got some shoes to sell [Applause] is a chinese word but boy americans have gotten good at it for years google proudly refused to kowtow to chinese censors adopting the slogan don't be evil but the chinese market proves so lucrative that well okay a little evil that's the deal china offers american companies and celebrities we'll give you access to our billion plus consumers as long as you shut up about the whole police state genocide thing john cena took that deal well come on china accounts for 34 of global box office and he's a movie star now so like the uyghurs last year he learned he needed to get some re-education [Applause] you see he john referred to taiwan as a country as if it was a separate country from china which it is what china would like to do to taiwan what it did to tibet and what it's now doing to hong kong so we were treated to this video well and i thought steroids shrunk your balls wowie when a country can make your big muscly macho man action stars grovel in their language you know you're somebody's in the original top gun tom cruise wore a bomber jacket with the flags of several asian countries that are our allies sewn on the back well the flag for taiwan has now magically disappeared for the upcoming top gun maverick well he used to be a maverick now he does whatever china says so so can you really blame 18 year old eileen goo who's already made over 31 million dollars as the face of 23 brand products in china for following in the footsteps of other american celebrities some of goo's defenders say it's racist to ask if she's still an american citizen and she herself won't say why is that racist why was it racist to think that kovit might have originated from a lab league as opposed to from eating bats besides the fact that the idea that covet came from eating gross weird food seems way more racist than the idea that it came from a high-tech lab [Applause] besides that the definition of woke was supposed to be being alert to injustice in society but because the woke now see race first and everything else never fear of being accused of racism has given a free pass on human rights abuses to china and any other places that are perceived as non-white if china was in europe would they get away with having concentration camps without more of an outcry from america if men were forcing women to wear this and say massachusetts would that go as unremarked on as it does the chinese classified transgender as a mental illness they just edited friends episodes so that ross's wife is definitely not a lesbian how would that go over here didn't martha luther king say an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere uh can we can we still quote him in in 2020 nba players wore jerseys that said freedom speak up and justice but i guess those things only matter for home games sorry weakers someone has to tell me where we got this rule that you can't criticize china because i suspect we got it from china because after all it's where we get everything else you

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

Views: 2,069,006

Keywords: Brooke Jenkins, San Francisco Assistant District Attorney, John Avlon, senior Political Analyst, anchor, CNN, author, new book, Lincoln and the Fight for Peace, Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher, The Nation, The Washington Post, President Biden, Russia, Ukraine crisis

Id: 50vs0cDuWQQ

Length: 8min 21sec (501 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 18 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/Nightmannn]

That one liner on John Cena was probably the harshest burn I've ever seen. Goddamn lol

[u/pfqq]

Damn this was one of his best segments I've seen in a while. I also love the lack of 50 applause breaks.

[u/LaPulgaAtomica87]

China is unironically becoming a more desirable place for much of the world to interact with, do business with, and perhaps even live in.

I don’t know about that one, chief.

[u/dontrackonme]

Xi Slogan: “Our best athlete is an American, raised in the American system, with American training. China number one!“

[u/TraditionalPassenger]

What I don't get is, how is china beating us? I mean, no diversity, no immigration, and no multiculturalism. How are we not crushing them?

[u/adamwho]

Couldn't find a relevant sub to dump this in?

[u/blossomjenna]

This is probably the only show left which is non bias and calls out bs like it is. This video should be trending

[u/CurrentRedditAccount]

I’m going to have to disagree with Bill here. Not everything is a political statement. She’s ethnically Chinese and that’s where her family is from. There’s nothing wrong with her wanting to represent them. It doesn’t mean she endorses their government. You can be proud of being Chinese, and you can be proud of your Chinese culture and history, without liking the current government there.

Now, if she came out and said something supportive of the Chinese government, then I would totally agree with Bill.

[u/23734608]

Hey /u/TheAJx, shouldn’t this be removed and posted in the current events mega thread?