Couple reasons. One while Hong Kong is considered Chinese territory and Jackson has to refer to himself as Hong-Kong Chinese in interviews, he isn;t given the same level of scrutiny or patriotic expectation as a born mainland native is, like Lay.
Two, he's not as relevant there. He's gaining fans but Lay has far more followers and the like. On rap of china they were mentioning Jackson's music background and completely omitted GOT7 so it seems that he's also trying to downplay his Kpop association a little bit.
Three Lay was already in hot water when THAAD began because he'd appeared in ads with exo for LOTTE (LOTTE corp gave the land for the thaad missile system and were boycotted in China as a result).Lay is also affiliated with the CCP as their youth ambassador so he can't even hint at going against the official government stance.
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One while Hong Kong is considered Chinese territory and Jackson has to refer to himself as Hong-Kong Chinese in interviews, he isn;t given the same level of scrutiny or patriotic expectation as a born mainland native is, like Lay.
Two, he's not as relevant there. He's gaining fans but Lay has far more followers and the like. On rap of china they were mentioning Jackson's music background and completely omitted GOT7 so it seems that he's also trying to downplay his Kpop association a little bit.
Three Lay was already in hot water when THAAD began because he'd appeared in ads with exo for LOTTE (LOTTE corp gave the land for the thaad missile system and were boycotted in China as a result).Lay is also affiliated with the CCP as their youth ambassador so he can't even hint at going against the official government stance.