China's answer to anthem disrespect: up to 3 years in prison
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China's rubber-stamp legislature on Saturday made disrespecting the national anthem a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison amid rising nationalist appeals from the ruling Communist Party under the leadership of President Xi Jinping.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed an amendment to the country's criminal law outlining punishments for people found "seriously" disrespecting the national anthem in public.
The move follows Xi's appointment to a second five-year term as party leader, for which he has touted a vision of achieving a "Chinese Dream" of a powerful, prosperous nation. It also comes as the anthem, "March of the Volunteers," has in recent months been a political flashpoint in the southern Chinese city of Hong Kong, where tensions are rising over Beijing's efforts to assert its authority over the territory.
According to the amendment passed Saturday in Beijing, penalties include detention, imprisonment of up to three years and the deprivation of political rights. Such punishments previously applied to the desecration of the national flag and emblem in public, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The legislature also moved to apply a separate, recently passed law on the national anthem to Hong Kong and Macau, Chinese semiautonomous regions with separate legal systems.
Soccer fans in Hong Kong have booed the anthem when it's played at games between the home team and teams from China or other countries, leading to fines from FIFA, the sport's governing body. Pro-democracy activists and lawmakers fear a national anthem law could be used to undermine freedom of speech in Hong Kong.
The National Anthem Law, which came into effect in October, stated that playing the anthem on occasions deemed improper, including funerals, or for changing its wording or presenting it in a disrespectful manner could be punished with 15 days in detention. China's legislature adopted a decision to include the law in Hong Kong's and Macau's mini-constitutions, known in each territory as the Basic Law.
Xinhua cited Zhang Rongshun, deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the top parliamentary body, as saying it was "urgent and important" to apply the anthem law in Hong Kong to address recent incidents.
"In recent years, incidents of disrespecting the national anthem had occurred in Hong Kong, challenging the bottom line of the principle of 'one country, two systems' and social morality, and triggering rage among Chinese, including most Hong Kong residents," Zhang said.
Since his appointment as party leader in 2012, Xi has established a growing cult of personality that leans heavily on his image as a patriotic leader who brooks no slight to national dignity. Hallmarks of his term in office have included a stronger military, bolder foreign policy and aggressive economic expansion abroad, as well as sharply reduced space for criticism or political dissent at home.
China's rubber-stamp legislature on Saturday made disrespecting the national anthem a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison amid rising nationalist appeals from the ruling Communist Party under the leadership of President Xi Jinping.
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed an amendment to the country's criminal law outlining punishments for people found "seriously" disrespecting the national anthem in public.
The move follows Xi's appointment to a second five-year term as party leader, for which he has touted a vision of achieving a "Chinese Dream" of a powerful, prosperous nation. It also comes as the anthem, "March of the Volunteers," has in recent months been a political flashpoint in the southern Chinese city of Hong Kong, where tensions are rising over Beijing's efforts to assert its authority over the territory.
According to the amendment passed Saturday in Beijing, penalties include detention, imprisonment of up to three years and the deprivation of political rights. Such punishments previously applied to the desecration of the national flag and emblem in public, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The legislature also moved to apply a separate, recently passed law on the national anthem to Hong Kong and Macau, Chinese semiautonomous regions with separate legal systems.
Soccer fans in Hong Kong have booed the anthem when it's played at games between the home team and teams from China or other countries, leading to fines from FIFA, the sport's governing body. Pro-democracy activists and lawmakers fear a national anthem law could be used to undermine freedom of speech in Hong Kong.
The National Anthem Law, which came into effect in October, stated that playing the anthem on occasions deemed improper, including funerals, or for changing its wording or presenting it in a disrespectful manner could be punished with 15 days in detention. China's legislature adopted a decision to include the law in Hong Kong's and Macau's mini-constitutions, known in each territory as the Basic Law.
Xinhua cited Zhang Rongshun, deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the top parliamentary body, as saying it was "urgent and important" to apply the anthem law in Hong Kong to address recent incidents.
"In recent years, incidents of disrespecting the national anthem had occurred in Hong Kong, challenging the bottom line of the principle of 'one country, two systems' and social morality, and triggering rage among Chinese, including most Hong Kong residents," Zhang said.
Since his appointment as party leader in 2012, Xi has established a growing cult of personality that leans heavily on his image as a patriotic leader who brooks no slight to national dignity. Hallmarks of his term in office have included a stronger military, bolder foreign policy and aggressive economic expansion abroad, as well as sharply reduced space for criticism or political dissent at home.
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i guess we should be thankful......
i say fukk them and fukk trump and fukk those cacs who cac'ing about nothing but wanna be about something -
thank ? we "Free".
Damn Commies -
Not surprised. They're a bunch or robots and individuality isn't celebrated there.
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INB4 cacs say "we need to be like china"
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They got their own ? over there. Makes me thankful I'm in this hell hole and not that one.
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They still think black people is Janitors, or low level workers in this day on age
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Communists gonna ? .
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They still think black people is Janitors, or low level workers in this day on age
Had a buddy of mine bring his ol lady on a trip over there. He's light skin, his gal a black African. They ran into some old china lady that never saw a black person that dark in real life. She was rubbing his girl skin like it was a fabric she'd never seen before. -
They still think black people is Janitors, or low level workers in this day on age
Had a buddy of mine bring his ol lady on a trip over there. He's light skin, his gal a black African. They ran into some old china lady that never saw a black person that dark in real life. She was rubbing his girl skin like it was a fabric she'd never seen before.
my trip to china...i was mobbed with people wanting pics and wanted to touch my ladies hair.
you would have thought i was a ball player.
the rest of the trip i have my kobe/jordan walk while chewing gum.....lol -
2stepz_ahead wrote: »They still think black people is Janitors, or low level workers in this day on age
Had a buddy of mine bring his ol lady on a trip over there. He's light skin, his gal a black African. They ran into some old china lady that never saw a black person that dark in real life. She was rubbing his girl skin like it was a fabric she'd never seen before.
my trip to china...i was mobbed with people wanting pics and wanted to touch my ladies hair.
you would have thought i was a ball player.
the rest of the trip i have my kobe/jordan walk while chewing gum.....lol
If you Black, over 6ft, and somewhat built, they will think you are a celebrity in China. -
2stepz_ahead wrote: »They still think black people is Janitors, or low level workers in this day on age
Had a buddy of mine bring his ol lady on a trip over there. He's light skin, his gal a black African. They ran into some old china lady that never saw a black person that dark in real life. She was rubbing his girl skin like it was a fabric she'd never seen before.
my trip to china...i was mobbed with people wanting pics and wanted to touch my ladies hair.
you would have thought i was a ball player.
the rest of the trip i have my kobe/jordan walk while chewing gum.....lol
If you Black, over 6ft, and somewhat built, they will think you are a celebrity in China.
yep...6'1" at the time i was in shape....an yep imma black ? .
man i was out there holding babies, taking pics with the elderly and the young chicks. the chicks was offering up ass on nanjing road. ? was crazy. the trip we went on was with cottontops...so they was hating cuz we was young and black and on a trip they saved thy life to go on.....an they wasnt the center of attention.
i was fukking loving it. -
They're SO fascinated with us it's scary. I hit up 2 Chinese spots out here. One, chick said u can have my number if u want I mean I'll give it 2 u! Didn't even ASK! Got it but never followed up. Other spot waiting on my food only one in there with 2 older female employees sitting by the buffet display. U like Chinese girls? Huh? I Look @ em and they just cheesing! U married? No. U want 2 be married to a Chinese? Chuckled got my food and bbounce.Black men R most wanted for all the right reasons by women of other ethnic groups when they have an opportunity 2 be discreet and holler, U better believe they will or let it be known.
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China aint really a democratic Republic is it..
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Well, that's why China is China. ? em.