Former NBA star Dwight Howard faces wave of backlash in China after referring to Taiwan as a “country” in a promotional video.
Howard, 37, made the comment as he appeared alongside the island's vice president, William Lai-Chingte, to promote a contest that will allow the winners to spend a night in Taiwan's presidential office.
Lai, who plays the director of the commercial, also described Taiwan as a"free country" in the video that was published Wednesday. By Friday the hashtag had received almost 400 million views on the Twitter-style site, which is heavily censored by government moderators. Beijing views Taiwan as an illegitimate breakaway province that is part of China's territory. When the civil war in China between the communists and nationalists ended in 1949 with the former triumphant, the latter set up a rival government in Taipei.
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