Why did a Canadian company announce that it would not release mobile games that insult China?

Recently, a Canadian mobile game called "Dirty Chinese Restaurant" was suspected of wantonly smearing Chinese people and their food. The Chinese Consulate General in Toronto condemned and demanded an apology. On October 5, local time, the game company announced on its social network account that it would not publish the game and apologized to the Chinese people for this.

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC News), video game developer Big-O-Tree Games said in a statement that after careful consideration and listening to public opinions, we have decided to release "Dirty China". Restaurant” is not in anyone’s interest. We sincerely and formally apologize to the Chinese people and guarantee that this game was not developed to intentionally cause harm or be malicious to Chinese culture. The final paragraph of the statement said that out of respect, the company will remove all promotional materials related to "Dirty Chinese Restaurants" from its Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts, and these accounts will also be revoked. The statement also appears on the company's website.

Canadian community activist Karlin Chan was excited about the news, saying: "They made the right choice by withdrawing the game. Content that uses racist stereotypes is not funny and should not be used. Become a game."

This game called "Dirty Chinese Restaurant" is a restaurant simulation game. In the game, the player becomes a character named Huang Fu who runs a Chinese restaurant. The elements of the game include illegal Chinese immigrants, tax evasion in the Chinese restaurant, squeezing employees, causing violence, bribing health inspectors, and killing stray cats and mice. Make food out of garbage and even kill people and provide it to customers. Inherited the business from his brother "Wang Fu". After the release trailer of the game was released, Big-O-Tree Games was criticized by the Chinese Consulate General in Toronto, local officials, and community rights activists.

On September 30, the spokesperson of the Chinese Consulate General in Toronto issued a statement on the company’s racially discriminatory games, stating that any fair and just society and people with moral conscience will never tolerate this kind of behavior. Racist and insulting behavior, and requires the company to immediately stop developing, selling and removing the game from the Internet, and publicly and formally apologize. Chinese-American members of the U.S. Congress attacked the game, saying it used all negative stereotypes against Chinese people and asked all platforms not to allow the game to be put on the shelves.