They demanded it because of UK law and a British police officer came and sided with the people being filmed, some of whom were British citizens.
That doesn't mean they are free from being criticized especially from Mr. "DONT TOUCH HER" but let's keep facts straight.
@thisischaniece
It's likely staged. What are the chances a known anti-China pianist happened to be filming while they're there filming something for "Chinese TV" (& what Chinese TV?) - and 2 of the "Chinese" have British accents so they're definitely not "CCP".
@USA_BaoziLover
It’s unnecessary to defend everything linked to China; the CCP won’t come after you(yet). Acknowledging wrongdoing is okay. This could’ve easily been a group of British natives too, as shown when one says, ‘get that camera out of my face.’
@Teadaxs
It's unnecessary to attack everything linked to China; the DOI won't come after you(yet). Acknowleding wrongdoing is okay. She literally says "I'm British" in the video. Thanks for playing.
@USA_BaoziLover
What the Chinese asked was not to show their image in the film versus Brendan interpreted it as not allowing him to film in public. It’s quite speechless how the situation escalated. And what’s in Brendan’s mind about China is quite alarming.
@USA_BaoziLover
The FLG and china haters had a field time ytd blowing up this incident. Are they really reporters from a China's media? Anyone could just hold a flag and claimed they are from China. And as you said, they may have cut the important parts off.
@thisischaniece
@thisischaniece
It’s gets even better. It seems the British YouTuber engineered the whole fake drama for attention in the first place. Here he is ‘behind the scenes’ happily interacting with the so called ‘CCP agents’.
@USA_BaoziLover
That just look so fake.
I watch vloggers doing public vids in China all the time and the ex pats video everything and there're no objections.
These clowns conveniently holding the flags are there to create a narrative.
My guess is they're the self-hating Gong Cult.
@USA_BaoziLover
In fact, at the beginning of the live broadcast, the pianist Brendan Kavanagh first played a famous MEME with discriminatory meaning in the West "Ching Cheng Hanji" after seeing a group of Chinese people next to him, but the Chinese people next to him did not get it.