China Hollywood Film Ban

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China Hollywood Film Ban

In response to a question regarding several influential bloggers’ posts on China’s countermeasures against US tariffs including restrictions on US agricultural imports and Hollywood films, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Tuesday that “we generally do not comment on online remarks. We have made it quite clearly on China’s stance. China will continue to take firm and strong measures to safeguard our legitimate rights and interests.”

Chinese Wechat account Niutanqin said in a post on Tuesday that China could take six countermeasures in response to US’ another 50 percent tariff threat on Chinese imports. In addition to restrictions on US agricultural imports and Hollywood films, other four measures also include ban on US poultry imports, suspension of China-US cooperation on fentanyl, countermeasures in the field of trade in services, as well as investigation on the benefits US companies have gained from intellectual property in China.

I'm with China. Hollywood movies will inevitably lead to societal decline and should be at least highly regulated.

china was literally keeping inclusion down to a few easily cut scenes so I see this as a good thing

Excellent, if true

ban on US poultry

Doesn't china keep making new avian flus becuase they have the largest poultry population of any country?

Oh no, the cost of food will go down, how terrible.

probably a good thing for both sides
it's not like they can't pirate them anyway

For all we know it could have been the party which told the blogger what to post in order to appraise the reactions, both internal and foreign, to some of the policy responses being floated around among the people in charge. A small fry like a blogger is not allowed to become too "influential" without the party's approval. Or maybe it's just the Russian/Alt-right Western fake news machine amplifying whatever rumour they can find on literal chinese blogs.

Chinese FM? Fart Master?

Foreign Ministry

How does

We don't comment on online remarks

becomes

China bans all Hollywood films

Do you read past the subject? Do you read at all? Are you dumb? Zoomers? Phoneposters? Or a combination thereof?

So they're going to completely kill their own movie theater industry?
That'll show US!

remember when all the youtubers were convincing you that China is the reason why hollywood is only producing slop?

meanwhile the highest grossing movies in the US are crap like the Lion King remake and now the Minecraft movie, while in China it's actually decent shit like Ne Zha2. China won't lose out on much if they ban US movies

leftists be like

Trump is making USA's enemies mad! see, I told you he's bad!

They will pirate our slop. No one can resist American media. We are the greatest country in the world and always will be

They used to be the number 1 bootleg dvd market back in the day. This doesn't matter at all.

No one cares if slop gets banned

Chinese attendance for foreign films has dropped significantly in recent years anyway. The only film where you will see a noticeable difference is Avatar

In communist China, film bans YOU

A great move. Everyone should follow.

Oh no what are they going to do?

it's just a rumour but western journalism is kindergarten-tier when it comes to east asia in general because pretty much everything in the western media has been narrative driven and you won't get labeled as racist for making storiees up about east asians in the west

that's already been restriction for years, nothing is happening nothing ever happens btw

the only American movie I'm looking forward to is the next Hunger Games

the last American movie I gave a shit about was Dune 2

the last American show I gave a shit about was Landman
Hollywood is so bad now they don't even need to to bother with piracy or censorship anymore because the quality is so low people don't give a shit.

Why did jannies delete the past thread we had about this? Why can't we discuss this major policy development and its effect on the industry?

Really interesting to think China pandering may disappear from blockbusters.

ngl this wouldve had people dancing in the streets when hollywood first started selling out to china but i doubt current hollywood can learn from its mistakes and start making movies that arent mass appeal trash

suspension of China-US cooperation on fentanyl

fuck them for this its an obvious bargaining chip

If this happened (doubful) it would unironically be the best thing to happen to Hollywood since the nineties.

There's actually a conspiracy theory going around that Chinas population is a fraction of what the government says it is. The one child policy devastated their nation.

The only reason movies isn’t full woke like art house bullshit is because of the Asian market namely China. Now there’s nothing stopping Jewwywood from going full woke. Also why doesn’t the Japs like Hollywood movies. The last movie they liked was star wars garbage.

We don't comment on online remarks

Proceeds to comment on online remarks. Well played, little Chinamen?

I agree, because without chink money it will collapse even faster

Do you genuinely believe these numbers? Grim

I don't care. Let's push the envelope.

The only reason movies isn’t full woke like art house bullshit is because of the Asian market namely China.

They literally changed the ethnicity of Aang in the Shymalan Last Airbender movie because they were worried if China would ban it if the character looked too similar to the real Dali Lama.

even chinas hollywood is crapping out nothing but sequels

fucking grim

A pretty overstated move. They were only letting 34 total US movies run in China per year and all of those had boxoffice cuts that heavily favored the Chinese theaters. Nice for a little bump in the big numbers so it looks like China is responsible for the latest shlock crossing 500mil or whatever, but their importance is dramatically exaggerated.

Avatar and The Transformers movies made most of their money in China.

And most of that money went to the theaters, not to the studio. Keep up, wumao.

That's what people who praise Chynah for "getting rid of woke" fail to realize:

1: companies like Tencent pushed wokeness in Western vidya to crash those companies so Tencent can buy them up

2: China has its own brand of wokeness, where the CCP's faggy sensibilities must be catered to (GHOST AND SKELETON SCARY!!!)

you are pretty naive. the popularity of hollywood movies has been drastically falling in china for years so most studios already stopped caring about china so much.