{"id":242870,"date":"2021-10-21T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=242870"},"modified":"2021-10-21T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:48:12","slug":"kanter-calls-chinese-leader-xi-jinping-brutal-dictator-celtics-games-are-pulled-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/kanter-calls-chinese-leader-xi-jinping-brutal-dictator-celtics-games-are-pulled-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanter calls Chinese leader Xi Jinping &#8220;brutal dictator&#8221;, Celtics Games Are Pulled in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enes Kanter accused Chinese government for what it is doing in Tibet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dear Brutal Dictator XI JINPING and the Chinese Government<\/p>\n<p>Tibet belongs to the Tibetan people!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeTibet?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FreeTibet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/To4qWMXK56\">pic.twitter.com\/To4qWMXK56<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Enes Kanter (@EnesKanter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnesKanter\/status\/1450869180283203589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/21\/sports\/basketball\/celtics-kanter-china-tibet.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur\">Per NY Times<\/a>, Boston Celtics games were abruptly pulled from the Chinese internet on Thursday after a center on the team, Enes Kanter, said on social media that the country\u2019s leader, Xi Jinping, was a \u201cbrutal dictator,\u201d citing his government\u2019s repressive policies in Tibet.<\/p>\n<p>In a video that was posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, Kanter spoke into the camera for nearly three minutes and decried what he called a \u201ccultural genocide\u201d in Tibet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI say, \u2018Shame on the Chinese government,\u2019\u201d he said, wearing a T-shirt with the image of the Dalai Lama, whom Beijing considers a criminal separatist. \u201cThe Chinese dictatorship is erasing Tibetan identity and culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another social media post by Kanter on Wednesday showed off sneakers emblazoned with Tibetan flag motifs and the words \u201cFree Tibet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another social media post by Kanter on Wednesday showed off sneakers emblazoned with Tibetan flag motifs and the words \u201cFree 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