The furor over a Chinese spy balloon that flew over U.S. airspace has further chilled D.C.-Beijing tensions, but the entertainment industry already has been swept up in the heightened atmosphere of…
, approved in a bipartisan vote of Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in December, is the latest example of an increased focus on China’s role, not just in the entertainment industry but also in sports and social media.
It’s long been common practice for studios and producers to make edits to projects to conform to cultural sensitivities in different marketplaces — not just in China but also other countries. U.S. lawmakers, particularly on the right, seized on examples of changes to movies or examples of self-censorship as a way of appeasing Beijing government censors.showed Tom Cruise’s character wearing a bomber jacket with two of the flag patches, for Taiwan and Japan, replaced with other symbols.
But even those who have extensive experience trying to tap the Chinese marketplace saw the attacks on the industry as more than just election-year rhetoric. “The problem is there is no free market capitalism if you don’t protect the foundation of the nation that is guarding that,” he said. “Consider this me giving them the initial warning order that they’ll have to testify before the committee,” Gallagher told radio host Hugh Hewitt.
The NDAA provision “is of course not surprising, since the only thing Democrats and Republicans seem to agree on these days is that China is evil and must be contained,” said USC professor and China expert Stanley Rosen.
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