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The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong

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This is an increasing factor in the US motion picture industry. Major studios are generally unwilling to produce movies that show China or the Chinese Communist Part in a negative light due to the need for financing and distribution.

Studios will absolutely modify screenplays, or else edit the films specifically for the China market to remove offensive or politically sensitive topics. It’s worth a lot of money to them to make a product which sells well in the Chinese market.

Also shoot whole new scenes for movies just for the Chinese market. I worked in post-production on Iron Man 3 and there are scenes that exist for that movie for China that don't exist in the US release.

Not sure if it's a contractual thing to get the coveted release window there or extra $.

Or look at The Meg, which was a US-Chinese co-production that was like a tourist video for Sanya Bay towards the end of the film.

But Hollywood isn't going to stand down over taking Chinese money. Right now, most of the money is made overseas on the big movies. Much like Germany was a huge overseas market in the 30s.

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My thought is that it's ok to deal with China as long as they play by our rules not their rules (such as censorship). If they see that they can still operate successfully under a system with freedom of speech, maybe they won't be so against it. But yes, you do have to be careful not to let them become a large enough percentage of revenue that the company would be in danger if China started threatening to pull out.

I agree that if you don't want to beholden to foreign rules, then don't become dependent on foreign markets. But what is this "our rules" business? Google lobbying rules that's currently clashing with the EU. Or US foreign policy rules?

Freedom of speech

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if you don't know or doubt how popular VPN is used in China, it indicates that you know little about modern China. everyone I know uses VPN or know how to use VPN if they need. as for exact scale, I'd leave that to you. you could easily figure that out as there are ton of such information online. If brainwashing really worked greatly like you said, Soviet Union would still exist now. It was their people who overthrew…

So how many millions of VPN users please?

didn't you see this "as for exact scale, I'd leave that to you. you could easily figure that out as there are ton of such information online"?

i encourage you to find out the answer by yourself.

Re: The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong

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“China doesn’t have that kind of influence in our country”. Yet here we are discussing them.

What does China produce that we have fans for? I don't see many cultural exports from them in America.

The point is the Chinese market is so large that “American” cultural exports are often tailored to the Chinese.

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China is offended by him offering an opinion on something. So, that makes them right? I'm offended by his backpedaling. That makes me right, right? China really needs to get a grip and understand that with seven billion people in the world, not everyone is going to agree with everything it wants.

These incidents remind me of the self-censorship amid threats from militant Muslims back then over depicting Muhammad.

Re: The NBA Feels a Backlash in China After a Tweet Supporting Hong Kong

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While I'm not a fan of how the NBA is handling this, I kind of lay the whole thing on their doorstep.

Political commentary is not new in the NBA. LeBron was told (indirectly) on Fox News to "Shut up and dribble" as an example. So if China/Hong Kong was an untouchable topic as it now appears to be, why not send out communications to teams that people aren't to comment on it? Does that stop someone from doing so? Not really, but in this particular case he walked it back and the NBA now has to be incredibly defensive. This seems like it could've been avoided so it is an unforced error on their part.

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