Josh Hawley Blasts Disney, Mulan’s ‘Glorification’ of ‘Atrocities’

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) blasted Disney on Wednesday for its close relationship with the Chinese agency responsible for overseeing concentration camps holding Uighurs in China, and asked the company to pull its new movie, Mulan, to avoid further glorification of Chinese atrocities related to the ethnic minority group.

There was a time when Beijing might have been satisfied with enslaving Uighurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities, even as it tortured them into abandoning their beliefs and swearing loyalty to the party, Hawley wrote in a letter addressed to Disney CEO Robert Chapek. But that is no longer the case. Now Beijing appears intent on destroying the Uighur people. And it has rolled out a sophisticated campaign to do just that, including by systematically sterilizing Uighur women and aborting their children.

Hawley shredded the company for filming Mulan in the Uighurs native province of Xinjiang, where China has detained more than a million people in reeducation camps, and asked the company to describe its relationship with Chinese authorities at the Turpan Public Security Bureau, which is responsible for overseeing the camps, noting the ending credits of Mulan recognized the bureau with special thanks.

How exactly does giving special thanks to the officials responsible for imprisoning, torturing, and forcibly sterilizing millions of people because of their ethnicities and beliefs align with your supposed commitment to promoting human dignity and respecting human rights? Hawley wrote. How does glorifying the Chinese authorities perpetrating abuses in Xinjiang provide comfort, inspiration, and opportunity to Uighur children including those who were never born because the CCP forced their mothers to abort them? Disney s actions here cross the line from complacency into complicity.

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Congress should just attempt to pass a law making it illegal for US companies or affiliates from filming movies in China. At the very least, this would let us know which of our glorious representatives really think that any lives matter.