Hollywood may not have the same powerful influence it had in the past but the truth is that it's still a very powerful tool. It doesn't have to mitigate Asian hate, but it can kowtow to China because China's market, that's the real power. If Hollywood were to turn against China it will be another avenue the west can use to fuel even more hate. I'm not talking about a pro-China movie here, I'm talking about China having the ability to make Hollywood bow down and not cast China as the forever bad guys. Another thing that people have to be careful about is falling prey to this "anti-woke" nonsense, that language belongs to racist republicans. Having a black mermaid in a fantasy film should be treated like the insignificant issue that it is, it's no reason to start some weird ideological war.
What you're missing here is that Hollywood's failures in China are not the fault of China. If Hollywood makes movies that are offensive to China, it gets banned. If that movie passes the Chinese censors but still bombed in the Chinese box office, then its just not what they really want to watch. Mission Impossible made it through the Chinese censors, but still fell behind local Chinese films. This is neither the fault of the CPC nor the Chinese audiences. Its just the nature of the Chinese box office.
I disagree that the anti-woke agenda is only exclusive to the Republicans. That is what the Democrats would like to have you believe. I hate the Republicans, but I can't be anti-woke at the same time? That's Democrat nonsense. The fact is that wokeism is not accepted by the vast majority of people on this planet. Wokeism is virtue signaling that has been hijacked by the American elites. It is unnatural, it is forced, and it is destructive to society.
Let's talk about The Little Mermaid and what is truly wrong about it. The black mermaid is not the issue here, the issue here is that the filmmakers insisted, that Ariel must be black. Ariel was well-established as white character in the 1989 film and the original book. The ironic thing is that Disney had created original female character of colour with great success before. The Princess and the Frog, Moana, and Mulan were good examples. Most people don't dislike a black Ariel any more than they dislike a white Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell. Hollywood should just stick to making things simple. A white character is played by a white actor, a black character is played by a black actor, and an Asian character is played by an Asian actor. LGBT should be respected, but not pushed in to our faces. Then maybe, things might get a little better for Hollywood in the future.
People need to be careful, most here don't remember the old Cold War and just because China has become an economic super power some young folks are starting to get a bit arrogant. China's rise to the top isn't guaranteed and what could stagnate China's power is hubris by people who think China's rise is automatic. Play the game but don't play it the way your enemy wants you to play. What the US wants is a clear antagonist so they can rally everyone around, don't give that to them. Keep their businesses reliant on Chinese markets and embed the Chinese economy into the global system so much that any confrontation will be very costly. Pulling away and thinking China has reached a stage it can do everything on its own will be a mistake borne from arrogance.
What arrogance are you talking about? Have you see Chinese youths calling black people the "N" word? Have you seen a Chinese person stomping on the head of a white woman in China? Have you seen Chinese TV personalities proclaiming that China is gonna become a Superpower and bomb country X back to the stone age? Have you seen Chinese people proclaiming out loud that China must stomp on the US and Japan to become the no.1 power in the world?
I see plenty of arrogance. The vast majority of it is on the side of the Americans and its minions. Remember that this current US-China animosity was started by the US. Why? Because of its arrogance that China can be put down like Japan and the Soviet Union. China urged the US to come back to business as usual, but the US just wont have it. The US is hell bent to not only take China down, but to also tear it apart and crush its culture and values. China is under attack, this is an existential crisis for the nation and its people. With this going on, is it any mystery why American stuff and Hollywood is no longer as popular in China as it once was? Hollywood should blame the US politicians for its business issues in China, not China.
China's mistake was not that it was arrogant. China's mistake was it trusted too much into the Western-led global order to be somewhat fair and just. The Trade War, global Sinophobia, and the Indian backstab all needed time to sink-in for China. Now China is learning from that mistake. Diplomacy and words didn't work. China needs to become a badass to keep itself safe. Hence we see a massive upsurge in technological and military development.
