Name: Jackie Chan Wants to Join the Chinese Communist Party!
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Loves the Chinese Communist Party He says wants to become a Chinese Communist

World-famous martial artist and actor Jackie Chan is making a desperate plea to the Chinese

But I'm also envious of you Chinese Communist Party members.

I just feel like the CCP is truly too great.

For every promise that the CCP makes, it doesn't even take a century, but only decades to become

I want to be a Chinese Communist Party member.

Yes, he wants to be a Chinese Communist Party member.

And while Jackie Chan's bootlicking would embarrass even Smithers , he may not even

But first, I'd like to say that Jackie Chan used to be cool.

Here he is singing at the Concert for Democracy in China.

It was held in Hong Kong—his hometown—to support the Tiananmen Square student protesters

That was just one week before the tanks rolled in.

And here Chan is in Taiwan in 1992, receiving one of the ten Outstanding Chinese Youth Special

Awards, and shaking hands with Taiwan's first democratically elected president, Lee

It doesn't seem like Jackie Chan would've been the type to support the Chinese Communist

But that all started to change after the 1997 transfer of Hong Kong to Chinese rule.

Then, Chan seemed to transform himself from a proud Hong Konger, into a proud Chinese

And in that weird brainwashed way, where he conflates being ethnically Chinese with loving

This next clip is from 2009, when Jackie Chan was invited to speak at a cross-strait symposium

Too much freedom and you become like what Hong Kong is today: chaotic.

Not to mention they're becoming like Taiwan: Also chaotic.

Uh, I've slowly begun to think that us Chinese people need to be controlled.”

According to Chan, both Hong Kong and Taiwan are just too free.

They need the warm, loving iron fist of the Chinese Communist Party!

By the way, Chan's whole thing about countries with too much freedom being “chaotic”

is straight out of Communist Party propaganda.

In 2013, Chan was appointed to join the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Appointments are often used as a way to boost celebrities' egos while making the Party

A place where a celebrity can push for criminal justice reform.

The Communist Party gives people high-up positions as a way to control them.

And the Party is not open to constructive criticism.

This year, Jackie Chan was also given membership to Hong Kong's newly reformed Election Committee—where

a group of unelected people get to participate in a rigged election to determine the next

Chan is also a Vice Chairman of the China Film Association, which refers to itself as

“an important force for the prosperity and development of socialist literature and art

and the construction of a strong socialist cultural country.”

And by development and construction, they mean endorsing censorship.

Here's an interview Jackie Chan did with CGTN in August 2019—as the anti-Chinese

Communist Party protests were raging in Hong Kong.

0:38 I have visited many countries, and I can say, our country has been rapidly developing

I feel pride in being Chinese wherever I go, and the 'Five-starred Red Flag' is respected

1:06 Hong Kong and China are my birthplaces and my home.

China is my country, I love my country, I love my home.

So what was Chan doing in June of that year when the Hong Kong protests were happening?

He was drinking tea in Taiwan, promoting his new album.

And he claimed he did not know anything about the Hong Kong protests while he was there.

But what Jackie Chan seems to have forgotten is that his success as a movie star is not

Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong—back when it was a British territory.

Hong Kong's political and economic freedom made it one of the world's most flourishing

filmmaking industries—especially for martial arts films.

For decades, Hong Kong was the world's second largest motion picture exporter.

Jackie Chan began his career in Hong Kong films in the 60s and 70s.

In 1980, he starred in his first Hollywood film.

That movie may have been dumb, but it was his big break.

After that Chan's career took off—thanks to the freedoms of Hong Kong, and eventually

And at the time, the film industry in China was just pushing out boring propaganda films.

Unlike now, when some of them are interesting propaganda films.

This article from 1991 says: “From the point of view of the studios, an important advantage

of [China's] political films is that no matter how awful they are, they make money

because the great majority of tickets are bought in bulk by offices and factories.

Employees are encouraged to see the films during normal work hours.”

So while Jackie Chan was filming classics like the thrilling “Police Story” and