How Hollywood Sold Out to China

With studios now implementing their own limits on free speech, America s supposedly gutsy, creative entertainment industry is at rapid risk of making preemptive self-censorship the standard. During the blacklist era of the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood studios infamously submitted to domestic political pressure. Today, film censorship the rise of which you can literally watch on screen has become one of the most visible examples of American businesses bending their values to satisfy China, and a worrying harbinger for any industry that wants access to the country s consumers. China has simply become too lucrative for Hollywood to resist.

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Ridiculously enough, the PRC’s main advantage in this strategic competition we’re having is cultural and political. Compared to ours, the carriers and jet fighters of the Chinese don’t amount to much. But the CCP has a sort of organized intention that is difficult to beat.