I can’t think of a more cringe title than this play on ‘Seven Years in Tibet’, a film that remains banned in China. 🙈 Btw, I assume Andy learnt Tibetan and did all his pre-approved interviews in it, given it’s the official language there and he always insists reporters speak the local language?
glad I left that bozo far behind when I left Twitter
Well he would say that Mandarin is also official, I guess, so no problem.... Anyway, if he wants to self-sabotage by stressing that his experience of Tibet is short and shallow, that's all to the good.
Of course that’s what he’d say. Not sure what his excuse is for not speaking Portuguese in his Brazil documentary or Lao in his Laos documentary though.
I didn't know he had documentaries on those places too. I guess they're all about the greatness of China's help to those countries.
The Laos one is about how the railway from China has helped Laos. The Brazil one he clearly filmed on holiday and covered all sorts. You can judge from this picture that China was obviously a focus.
It coincided with the 50th anniversary of China-Brazil diplomatic relations.
I visited Laos and took that railway recently. My conclusions were... probably different from his. gabrielecorsetti.substack.com/p/laos-part-...
The play on words really doesn't work well at all with the inconsistent refusal to use the word Tibet (they haven't figured out a new demonym for xizang it seems)
I’ve seen this discussed. The line now is ‘Tibetan’ is okay because ‘Tibet’ still refers to the historic area and culture, while ‘Xizang’ is only for the modern AR. It didn’t escape my attention that it took a while for this to be addressed, so clearly there was a decision made that filtered down.