{"id":27524,"date":"2019-12-14T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T12:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=27524"},"modified":"2019-12-14T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T12:50:19","slug":"henry-tang-nieces-viral-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/henry-tang-nieces-viral-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Tang: Niece's viral poem is an "expression of personal opinion""},"content":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong’s former chief secretary Henry Tang distance himself from niece’s viral poem on Hong Kong protests<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Henry Tang: It doesn’t reflect my political stand<\/span><\/h2>\n

Hong Kong’s former chief secretary was quick to distance himself from a poem posted by his niece<\/a> in social media that went viral. The poem was expressing support towards the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.<\/span>
\nHenry Tang’s office explained, what Stefani Kuo, the daughter of his brother in law, expressed in her poem piece is a matter of “personal opinion” and does not reflect the stand of Mr Tang or his family in general.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2047<\/span><\/h2>\n

The poem Kuo wrote was titled\u00a0<\/span>“2047.”<\/span><\/em>\u00a0A video of her reading the poem went viral on social media after being posted by the group\u00a0<\/span>New Yorkers Supporting Hong Kong<\/span><\/em>. It is not clear if Kuo was a member of the group or her video was just used to deliver the same sentiments the group has.<\/span>
\nThe six-minute video mentioned key controversies within the seven-month protest in Hong Kong<\/a>. Unfortunate events include the death of students Alex Chow and Chan Yin-Lam, attacks on university campuses and other violence-related incidents during the span of the protest.<\/strong><\/span>
\nStefani Kuo is the granddaughter of Hong Kong’s 20th-century textile businessman, Stanley Kuo.\u00a0<\/span>
\nHenry Tang got married to Lisa Kuo, Stefani’s aunt, which affiliates Tang to the Kuo family.<\/span>
\nStefani is a graduate from Yale University; she is currently a New York-based playwright, actress, poet, and a member of the writer’s group\u00a0<\/span>Interstate 73 with Page 73<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wanted to write a beautiful poem, but another student has died. I have watched countless videos of cracked skulls and broken bones, taunted citizens, and innocent screams.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is it a matter of international concern?<\/h2>\n

In the poem, Kuo also criticized the United States for not supporting the call for democracy in HongKong. Neither the United Nations was spared from the backlash of Kuo’s poem, for not standing up against China.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The US is a country founded on freedom and democracy. Why does it lay in bed with a communist regime in China?<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These are strong words coming from Kuo, pointing out the inaction from the US on the Hong Kong crisis.<\/span>
\nKuo is continuously gaining support from protestors and the international community that believes with the same cause as she is.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are two sides to the story of the Hong Kong crisis. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The international community is usually dependent on what social media portrays and traditional media reports.<\/span>
\nThe poem is from the standpoint of someone who lives miles away from Hong Kong. It might be the reason why Henry Tang chooses to distance himself since maybe as a Hong Konger, he has a different point of view.<\/strong>
\nWhat do you think?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong’s former chief secretary Henry Tang distance himself from niece’s viral poem on Hong Kong protests Henry Tang: It doesn’t reflect my political stand Hong Kong’s former chief secretary was quick to distance himself from a poem posted by his niece in social media that went viral. The poem was expressing support towards the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":27527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}