‘You don’t love your Chinese fans’ Lady Gaga faces a BAN in China
Lady Gaga is making headlines once again, and this time she has been banned from China…yes BANNED!
Gaga met with the Dalai Lama, an exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, last week at the at the US Conference of Mayors in Indianapolis.
According to The Guardian, the pair discussed a number of topics, including yoga, charitable giving and mental health.
The Poker Face singer, who has an insane following of 17.5 million on instagram, then shared an image of herself and the Buddhist Monk on Monday in a move which sparked outrage in Bejing.
The Dalai Lama, who seeks autonomy for his Tibetan homeland, was exiled in 1959 after a failed attempt at an uprising against Chinese rule.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei spoke about the Dalai Lama, and his meeting with Lady Gaga, saying "There is a broad consensus internationally about what kind of person the Dalai Lama is and what he does internationally."
Commenting on her meeting with the world famous Monk on Instagram, Gaga wrote ' We must stay unified. Be Kind not only to your friends, but to your enemies.'
But it doesn't look like everyone is on the same page as the star.
"After the relevant incident happened, if you look at comments on the Chinese Internet, their anger has welled up," Hong Lei went on to say.
The social media backlash was evident, with one follower commenting on the picture saying 'You don't love your Chinese fans at all. Maybe you will lose all of them.'
'This old man is a cheater, he wanted to split China,GAGA don't trust him' another fan went on to say.
Following her meeting with the religious leader, the Communist party in China announced that Lady Gaga was to be put on a blacklist, and her entire repertoire was to be banned from the Chinese mainland.
Seems a bit extreme lads?
While Gaga has never played a gig in mainland China, she has a massive fan base there, and has played in Hong Kong and Macau.
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