>>76427533This anon
>>76428766 is correct in linking this cross post.
>>76428453The Chinese do this kind of thing all the time, especially with foreign companies. They're conceited assholes that believe they're the most important people in the world. This manifests in several ways, but understanding their behavior requires you to understand how they do business with foreign companies.
China severely limits the amount of money that foreign companies are allowed to take out of the country. In order to operate a foreign business in China, you have to go through a chinese-owned middleman who is given 50% ownership of the operation there.
The majority of the foreign company's take is then prevented from leaving the country by chinese commerce laws and so they are forced to reinvest their own profit into the chinese controlled side. Eventually, the chinese side demands access to the foreign company's trade secrets and technology, after which, they expel the foreign company while justifying it through some kind of manufactured scandal while invoking nationalistic sentiments by accusing the foreign side of "hurting the feelings of the Chinese people".
The chinese middleman then continues selling the service or product under their name, now fully owned by them.
This exact process has happened countless times with countless businesses.
This should guve you a general idea about how they view their business with foreign-based companies.
Now back to this Matsuri stuff.
The Chinese try to use underhanded tactics and coercive methods like this to gain more control over companies than their position allows, which you might think is very odd for such a hierarchical society, but they don't view foreigners as equal to them, and so they'll unilaterally make decisions to try and force foreign companies to comply with their demands or gain power over them, at least in their business in china.
When the foreign partner refuses or disagrees, the Chinese side will then appeal to their Chinese customer base and explain that the foreign side has betrayed them and will try to rally nationalistic support against the foreigner-controlled side of the business until they acquiesce to their demands.
We saw this tactic attempted multiple times in the past including a similar incident to this one when one of the Cover-affiliated, Chinese-owned bilibili channels promised their subscribers that Pekora would do a stream on bilibili and when she didn't, they tried to paint her as a liar that betrayed the Chinese people.
And we saw it again when Chinese bilibili management tried to obtain Hololive CN's models by telling the CN members that Cover told them they could keep their models after the branch disbands. This was never true because that's not how Cover has ever done things, and instead it was an attempt by bilibili management to gain leverage in their exit negotiations and possible permanent access to Cover's tech, including the holoapp the talent use to stream. Their plan was to make Cover look extra evil to chinese fans by making it look as if they had reneged on their promise to let the talent keep their models, even though that was never discussed in the first place.
So this is just another act of coercion on the Chinese side in an attempt at a power grab in order to give the bilibili channel owner more influence over Cover and hololive by telling their chinese fans that Cover doesn't respect them and so they canceled Matsuri's stream.
This is how china does business.
