The journalist spent three years in prison but teams up with dissident Vicky Xu for gags about bad food, weight loss and giving Xi Jinping a hug
, has offered to “reciprocate the hospitality” when the country’s premier, Li Qiang, visits Australia later this week.with Vicky Xu – a writer and well-known Chinese dissident – Cheng joked that the premier had “got the dates wrong” and would miss their performance.
“I’ve put on seven kilos since coming out of detention. It’s the first time in my adult life I’ve been really happy about putting on weight,” Cheng said.“First of all, I have endorsement from China’s ministry of state security, because they think that I’m such a good performer that I’ve been embedded as a spy inShe said also joked that while she tells her friends she was “in a dark place” during her time in detention, the lights were always on in her cell.
“The audience was shocked. So I just thought I’d give it another go. Then I met Cheng Lei and she seemed really interested in comedy, and I said, ‘You should do comedy too.’ So it’s become a double act.”forced labour in China’s Xinjiang provinceThe report led her to become the target of a widespread campaign of intimidation and online abuse by agents and supporters of Beijing. At events, she was routinely heckled.
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