Hong Kong singer Denise Ho has been blacklisted, banned from the mainland, had concerts canceled, and lost sponsorship deals. Yet she continues to speak out.
Pro-democracy Hong Kong singer Denise Ho after addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on July 8, 2019.
Entertainers across the Chinese music sphere as well as Western artists have been banned from performing in China because of perceived insult to the Chinese government and its policies. “Four people committed suicide, as an ultimate cry of despair. This anger of Hong Kongers follows years of deceitful promises,” Ho said when she regained the floor. “China is preventing our democracy at all costs.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Tuesday that Ho’s request was a “pipe dream” and that foreign powers, specifically the United States, were interfering in China’s domestic affairs. Actor and martial artist Jackie Chan, who performed at a concert in Hong Kong to support pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, was asked about the Hong Kong protests during an album promotion in Taiwan last month.
“There is only one China,” Chou said in her apology, reading flatly from a piece of paper. “I have always felt proud to be Chinese.” State media in China labeled Ho and other artists who had supported the protesters as traitors, circulating lists of singers and actors who were no longer to be mentioned or allowed in mainland China.
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