Interesting article. Shows how self serving and power hungry leftist/socialist really are.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...terious-disappearance-chinese-film-star-elite
Fan Bingbing
“For a long time, I did not distinguish between national, social and personal interests,” she wrote. “As a public figure, I should abide by the law, and play a leading role in society and industry …
Without the good policies of the party and the state, and without the love of the people, there would be no Fan Bingbing.” - Fan Bingbing
Already the content of Chinese films is
carefully vetted and must promote “core socialist values”.
According to reports, Fan was detained at a “holiday resort” in Wuxi, under a 2013 legal framework known as “
residential surveillance at a designated location”. It is essentially a legalistic euphemism for
disappearance and forced detention.
Until now, forced detentions have been used against
suspected political dissidents and human rights defenders, such as Caster’s former colleague, lawyer Wang Quanzhang, who went missing in 2015 and has not been seen since.
“President Xi Jinping has made it very clear that he wants to
do away with elites and the fetishism around money and certain forms of power,” says Caster.“If you have people looking to what celebrities do and say online versus
what the party dictates, that may be very plausibly part of it.
Anything that rises to a level of social, economic or political power is seen as a threat to the supremacy of the Communist party.” - Michael Caster