07.06.2016
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Beijing (Sputnik) — The beauty multinational Lancome is the latest victim of the tense political climate between Hong Kong and the Beijing Government after the controversial cancellation of an artist's concert.
The company had announced the performance during the weekend of the famous singer Denise Ho, who has been involved in the democratic struggle in the former colony and other issues that irritate Beijing.
Pero el concierto fue cancelado a última hora por la empresa citando "motivos se seguridad" which did not detail.
A day before, el diario ultranacionalista Global Times había criticado a la compañía de objetos de lujo por invitar a quien "apoya la independencia de Hong Kong y al líder independentista del Tíbet", in reference to the meeting that Ho had with the Dalai Lama in the past.
Ho ha exigido a la compañía que explique cuáles son esas supuestas razones de seguridad ya que la cancelación "confunde al público y pone en peligro" your reputation.
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"Cuando una marca global como Lancome tiene que arrodillarse ante el matón hegemónico, debemos enfrentarnos al problema de forma seria", said in a statement.
Criticism of the Global Times newspaper, posted on their Weibo account (chinese twitter), They immediately received an avalanche of responses from internal Internet users, mostly opposed to the singer.
But the cancellation has sparked the opposite response in Hong Kong., very jealous of its freedoms and increasingly concerned about Beijing's influence in internal affairs.
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The Facebook page has been flooded with critical comments, many of whom demand a boycott of the brand.
Beijing subjects foreign artists who intend to perform in the country to strict control and some of them have had to cancel their concerts after their sympathies with the Dalai Lama became known..
But the former colony, which is governed by the system of one country and two systems, had been left out of that censorship until now.
The massive democratic protests of Occupy Central 2014 or the arrests of booksellers by the Chinese police on Hong Kong soil have widened the gap between the society of the former colony and the central government in Beijing.
