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Angelina Jolie Angers China

Angelina Jolie made a huge BLUNDER when in China on her promotional tour for Disney’s Maleficent when said China and Taiwan were separate countries!

Huh?

Angelina, really?

CelebNMusic247.com has learned that Disney’s most popular villainess may have made herself a new enemy with her controversial statement that made eye’s role.

Jolie was asked to name her favorite Chinese director; she identified Life of Pi director Ang Lee, who is Taiwanese-American.

Jolie answered:

“I am not sure if you consider Ang Lee Chinese, he’s Taiwanese, but he does many Chinese-language films with many Chinese artists and actors.”

“And I think his works and the actors in his films are the ones I am most familiar with and very fond of.”

That is when Chinese social media has since reportedly blewn up, with comments calling Jolie “traitorous” and a “deranged Taiwan independence supporter.” Some threatened to boycott her for, in the words of one user, “disrespecting Chinese sovereignty.” Meanwhile, Taiwanese internet users are said to be praisingthe actress, with one calling her a “brave and brilliant woman.”

Here is what is now being reported on YahooMovies in regards to Angelina tragic and controversial answer that when sideways causing a HUGE backlash.

Jolie’s Ang Lee statement doesn’t sound too extreme from an outsider’s perspective, but China’s relationship with Taiwan is a touchy subject. Although Taiwan calls itself the Republic of China, the region has been governed separately from mainland China since 1949. An active Taiwan independence movement still exists, which the Chinese government vehemently opposes. Though relationships have improved since 2008, the Taiwanese Strait is still considered a potential conflict zone.

All of which is probably why Jolie, a U.N. ambassador, was so careful in choosing her words to describe Ang Lee — a choice that clearly backfired.

Fortunately, Jolie is being joined on her press tour by somebody who understands her situation very well: Brad Pitt. The actor was reportedly banned from China after making the 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet, which portrayed the Chinese military in Tibet as harsh and unjust. Ironically, the Maleficentpress tour marks Pitt’s first public trip to China since that controversy.

It remains to be seen whether Jolie’s words will affectMaleficent’s international box office, of which China is a key part. Thus far, the movie has been doing well; according to the Wall Street Journal, it’s currently the second highest-grossing film in Taipei, after Edge of Tomorrow.

As delicate a subject as Taiwan-Chinese relations are, Jolie is literally a diplomat — so perhaps she’ll find a way to recover. And just think: if she’d answered Zhang Yimou instead of Ang Lee, none of this would be happening.