The regime apparently cannot handle even the most tangential reference to the courage of Tank Man and the slaughter he was unable to prevent because Li’s broadcast was abruptly terminated soon after displaying the cake and he did not return over the weekend, even though a major online shopping season is in progress. The most renowned image to emerge from Tiananmen Square was “ Tank Man ,” a photo of a lone, nondescript man armed with nothing but plastic shopping bags staring down a column of Chinese tanks.Ī Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing’s Cangan Blvd. The regime in Beijing is using all of its totalitarian power to eliminate the memory of the dead. Communist forces murdered thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators on that day. Li presented this cake the day before the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, an atrocity the Chinese Communist Party is determined to erase from history. He was in the process of hawking snack food to his viewers when he showed off a cake that looked vaguely like a tank, with Oreo cookie wheels and a wafer gun barrel. There was no sign that Li intended to send any coded political messages on his Friday show. It was therefore a bit of a surprise when his Internet career literally faded to black on Friday because he showed a novelty cake to his audience. Li is, in short, a very big deal on the Chinese Internet - and he has been happy to help out with the authoritarian government’s nationalist agenda, urging his followers to trust and purchase “made in China” products.
He is said to be worth up to five million dollars, a fortune he amassed by moving more than $145 million worth of products for e-commerce giant Alibaba.īillionaire Alibaba founder Jack Ma once humorously challenged Li to a contest to see could sell more lipstick during China’s annual “Double Eleven” online shopping extravaganza. He mostly hawks beauty products, which he sometimes demonstrates on models, sometimes on himself.
Li, 30, spent the past five years building an audience of over 64 million followers on a platform called Taobao Live, where he is frequently hailed as the most popular streamer.
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