U.S. President Joe Biden presents Michelle Yeoh with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Michelle Yeoh is a Malaysian native of Fujian Province, China. Malaysian Chinese actress, international star, martial arts actress, August 6, 1962. Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, graduated from the Royal Academy of Dance.
In 1979, she participated in the official debut of Miss Malaysia Trendy. Michelle Yeoh is the first Asian lady to be an Oscar-winning actress, and her representative works include "Instant Universe", "Crazy Rich Money", "Aung San Suu Kyi", "Rain of Swords", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "007: Tomorrow's Empire", "Song Family Dynasty", "Ah Jin's Story", "Police Story 3", "Super Police", "Royal Sister" and so on.
On May 3, local time in the United States, U.S. President Joe Biden presented Yang Ziqiong with the Presidential Medal of Freedom to encourage his achievements in his acting career.
According to the British "Daily Mail", Biden was confused again when he presented Michelle Yeoh with the award, Biden mistakenly called her "Michael" at first, but quickly corrected himself and changed it to the correct name "Michelle", which attracted countless netizens to complain, saying that Biden made the highest honor of civilians the biggest joke.
Other prominent Democratic figures who received the award include 80-year-old former US Secretary of State John Kerry and 82-year-old billionaire Michael Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City. In addition, the 19 winners also include people from the fields of culture and sports, including Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh and American swimmer Ledecky.
The civilian medal representing the highest honor of the United States, that is, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, is awarded once a year and is the highest civilian honor in the United States, but the recipients are not necessarily the American people.
It is mainly awarded to those who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of science, culture, sports, etc.
Founded in 1945 by then-U.S. President Harry S. Truman, it was initially designed to honor civilians who had made outstanding contributions in World War II.
In 1963, then-U.S. President John F. Kennedy expanded and modified the recipients to include civilians who contributed to peacetime.
Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple's mobile phone, was also posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to show his posthumous reward for his outstanding contributions to innovation in the field of mobile phones.