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Why Hollywood’s Cozy Relationship With China Could Face An Ugly Reckoning In The 2020sFrom the Golden Globes to 'Mulan,' the foreshocks of a fight over Hollywood's cozy relationship with China are trembling beneath our feet.By Emily JashinskyJanuary 15, 2020At some point after viewers watched Ricky Gervais needle begowned Golden Globe revelers over their affiliations with China, those watching at home would have seen the trailer for “Mulan†play during a commercial break. (Disney was one of three companies Gervais named in his monologue.) It was fitting, in Hollywood’s first big party of the 2020s, to see shadows of a conflict that roiled the waning days of its last decade.The very next morning, director Judd Apatow was quoted in an exhaustive New Yorker article probing “The Future of America’s Contest with China.†It’s a drama in which Hollywood plays a supporting role. ...“What you don’t hear about,†Apatow continued in The New Yorker, “is all of the ideas that get killed at the earliest pitch stage, at all of the studios and networks, because people don’t even want to consider dealing with it.†...I took the question about soft-power initiatives straight to one of the upper chamber’s resident China hawks. “Of course China is leveraging market access to extend the Communist Party’s arm and export its authoritarian ideology internationally,†Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told me. “What’s especially disturbing to me is how willing American film studios are to self-censor and carry water for the CCP.â€â€œThere’s no shortage of examples from Hollywood,†Rubio continued. “Paramount altered Maverick’s patches in the new ‘Top Gun’ film to strike out the Japanese and Taiwanese flags so it didn’t offend any Chinese viewers. The ‘Red Dawn’ remake had to change the bad guys from Chinese to North Korean in post-production after Beijing’s propaganda whipped up a controversy around it.". ...
