{"id":32497,"date":"2021-05-26T23:38:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/may\/26\/john-cena-apologises-for-calling-taiwan-a-country-amid-chinese-backlash-video"},"modified":"2021-05-26T23:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:38:24","slug":"john-cena-apologises-for-calling-taiwan-a-country-amid-chinese-backlash-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32497","title":{"rendered":"John Cena apologises for calling Taiwan a country amid Chinese backlash \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fast &amp; Furious star and wrestler John Cena has apologised for calling Taiwan \u2018a country\u2019 in an interview he gave to a Taiwanese broadcaster this month. \u2018I made a mistake. I love and respect Chinese people,\u2019 Cena said to his 600,000 fans on his Chinese&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/weibo.com\/3477696732\/Kh0DJbh7C?filter=hot&amp;root_comment_id=0&amp;type=comment\">Weibo account<\/a>. The controversy began when he told the Taiwanese broadcaster TVBS in Mandarin \u2018Taiwan is the first country that can watch\u2019 his latest film,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/may\/01\/fast-furious-9-to-black-widow-which-blockbuster-will-triumph-this-summer\">Fast &amp; Furious 9<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>China sees Taiwan as a part of its own territory, and rejects any reference to the self-governed island as an independent state<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/26\/john-cena-very-sorry-for-saying-taiwan-is-a-country\">John Cena \u2018very sorry\u2019 for saying Taiwan is a country<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/may\/26\/john-cena-apologises-for-calling-taiwan-a-country-amid-chinese-backlash-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fast &amp; Furious star and wrestler John Cena has apologised for calling Taiwan \u2018a country\u2019 in an interview he gave to a Taiwanese broadcaster this month. \u2018I made a mistake. I love and respect Chinese people,\u2019 Cena said to his 600,000 fans on his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,2194,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-fast-and-furious","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32498,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497\/revisions\/32498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}