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Jackie Chan has a very pro-China stance. In his autobiography, he mentions that he is proud to be Chinese, and makes several associations to Chinese culture, seemingly over Hong Kong.

I found it to be a curious position, seeing as he is adored by Hong Kongers, and always seemed to identify as / with HK.

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He was adored by Hong Kongers - he is now generally rather disliked and considered a sell-out in HK, for exactly this reason...

You do know that Hong Kong was really part of China right? It was taken by the British Empire in 1842 by destroying China in the First Opium War. When the British finally gave it back to China in 1997, a lot of the non-chinese moved out of HK.

What I'm trying to emphasize is that "Hong Kongers" and Jackie Chan are Chinese.

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