Terrible News For TWICE's Tzuyu

As you climb the "success" ladder, you will always come across some obstacles. One being HATERS.  This all started on a show called My Little Television. Tzuyu appeared on a recent episode with Momo, Sana, Mina, and GOT7's Jackson. After Jackson stated he was from Hong Kong-China, Tzuyu, holding a Taiwanese flag, said she was from Taiwan. Just Taiwan. This is a big no-no for the Chinese public. When one states that they are from Taiwan, they should say Taiwan-China. This shows they support the inclusion of Taiwan with China. Tzuyu, on the other hand, "demonstrated Taiwanese independence" in a polite manner.

Now, this would not have been much of an issue if, let's say, a manic 50-something year old man had not taken to his Weibo account to fire off on Tzuyu about this matter. However, unfortunately, this is the case. Huang An, an older,TAIWANESE singer in his 50's, took jabs at Tzuyu's image on his Weibo account. And he did not write one or two posts about Tzuyu's not-confirmed Taiwanese pride, but several. Really, dude? She's only a kid...you have way too much time on your hands.

...oh, the irony...

Because of Huang An, Tzuyu has become a trending topic on Weibo for three consecutive days. This is unheard of as new topics trend very fast on Weibo everyday. Tzuyu trending for so long has caught the attention of the Chinese government since their elections are nearing and are taking no prisoners for whoever hints at Taiwanese independence...but she didn't -_- .

Due to this misunderstanding, here's a list of Chinese bans TWICE is suffering from:

1. Twice recording for the Bei Jing Spring Festival Gala will be edited out.

2. Twice was invited to the An Hui Spring Festival Gala, that is now removed.

3. Twice CF deal with LG + Huawei has been terminated. (This is the most extreme since LG is a Korean company. What?!?)

4. Kuwo music (China's version of Spotify with over 1 million app downloads) has removed all JYP artist songs and music videos.

5. Kugou music (Same deal as Kuwo) has removed all of Twice songs and music videos.

6. Hunan TV (The channel that a lot of Kpop artists appear on) has voiced they will not be inviting supporters of Taiwan independence to their shows.

The combination of the Chinese media and C-netizens has made it so any JYP artists are outcasts in China. This is such an ugly issue over something that has not been proven. Hopefully, this issue will die down soon in China because I really like TWICE's "Like Ohh-Ahh" and want them to make more music like that. The Chinese media are really blowing this whole situation out of proportion. What do you think about this issue?

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Sources: Weibo, jypnation90, China Times