China’s communist regime fined a mainland Chinese talk show company around $2 million and suspended its performances indefinitely this week after a comedian was reported by audience members for mocking China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and the regime’s military slogan.
Observers pointed out that it’s becoming harder for talk show hosts and comedians to survive in China under the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) increasingly restrictive censorship.
An audio clip of Chinese stand-up comedian Li Haoshi’s May 13 performance went viral recently on Chinese social media, in which he said:
“I adopted two stray dogs, they were wild dogs picked up from the mountains near my home. When I saw these two dogs for the first time, they were chasing squirrels like fired cannonballs, so 8 large characters flashed in my mind, ‘Excellent style of work, able to win battles’—very good.”…