Summary Hong Kong has become a city where people scold China and protest against anything, the actor said.
HONG KONG: Jackie Chan is being quoted as suggesting that protests should be restricted in the freewheeling Chinese city of Hong Kong.
The action star laments in a newspaper interview that Hong Kong has become a city where people scold China and protest against anything. He says there should be regulations on what can be protested. The Southern People Weekly published Chan s comments Wednesday.
The star of movies such as "Rush Hour" and "Rumble in the Bronx" triggered a backlash three years ago with similar comments on the need to restrict freedom in his hometown.
A former British colony, Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997 and is now a semiautonomous region granted Western-style civil liberties. It s seen a rising number of protests by people upset with the city s Beijing-backed leader.
