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The Chinese government controls access to their lucrative movie market. There is no freedom of speech; people who displease them are punished with loss of access.

Hollywood complies by making films that please the Chinese government censors. A quick search will find a NY Times article about the head of Disney going to China to apologize about a film about Tibet, and promising that such a thing would never happen again. IIRC, there are stories that Hollywood gives Chinese government censors prior review of films before they are finalized, and edits them as instructed/requested.

When was the last time you saw a film critical of China? Showing China doing something bad? Complementary of the Dalai Lama?




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