Zara Larsson: China "is not a nice state”

【縛雞之見】

“The collaboration had ended a few months ago” means it is not a quick decision.

I do not know how this happens: Zara Larsson supports China, like other entertainers.

However, there is a trend of “China not a nice state” in the entertainment industry, which is a disaster to CCP.

不再代言華為！瑞典小天后：中國不是好國家    自由20200805

中國華為公司因資安疑慮遭美國政府封殺，在國際上也遭到抵制。二十二歲的瑞典流行音樂小天后莎拉．萊森（Zara Larsson）四日宣布已終止為華為手機代言的合作關係，因為「中國不是一個友善的國家」（is not a nice state）。她向瑞典TV4電視網表示，數月前已結束與華為在二○一九年四月簽訂的手機代言合約，「如果我現在回頭看，從專業也從個人角度來看，這都不是我所做過最明智的交易」，她不支持中國的所作所為。二○一三年出道的萊森，是瑞典數一數二的國際知名歌手，暢銷曲串流量超過五十億次播放次數。

 

 

SINGER ZARA LARSSON

CUTS TIES WITH HUAWEI: CHINA NOT A NICE STATE    Eye Witness News 20200804

STOCKHOLM - Swedish singer Zara Larsson announced Tuesday that she had ended her collaboration with China's Huawei to promote its smartphones, saying China "is not a nice state".

Speaking with broadcaster TV4, Larsson, whose greatest hits have been streamed over five billion times according to the broadcaster, said the collaboration had ended a few months ago.

"If I now look back it wasn't, from a professional but also a personal perspective, the smartest deal I've done," the 22-year-old singer said.

"It's not something I stand behind," she added.

 

Larsson, who is one of Sweden's best known international singers, first reached international fame with her 2013 hit Uncover, then through her collaboration with French DJ David Guetta.

In April 2019, Zara Larsson concluded a promotional deal with Huawei to market the launch of a new smartphone.

Olympic swimmer Sarah Sjostrom was also hired to promote the Chinese telecoms giant's phones.

 

Interviewed last year by the magazine Resume about the accusations of spying and Huawei's ties to the Chinese state, Larsson said she wasn't "particularly informed".

"Huawei is a privately owned company in China that is now launching a good mobile phone, more than that I'm not thinking about or commenting," she told the magazine.

Her statements provoked criticism that Larsson was promoting the interests of the Chinese communist regime.

 

In an op-ed published on Tuesday in newspaper Expressen, Matilda Ekeblad, a local politician representing the conservative Moderate Party, accused the singer of "running China's errands", pointing to accusations Huawei conducts espionage for Beijing and Chinese repression of the Uighur community and Hong Kong.

Interviewed by TV4 the same day, Larsson said she did not want to support what China "was doing".

"We know that the Chinese state is not a nice state," she said, adding that she would have liked to take a stand on the Uighurs, Tik Tok or Hong Kong but that she felt "hindered" by her collaboration with Huawei.