U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (D-CA) recently introduced what is considered the strongest congressional proposal to date to combat Hollywood’s increasing capitulation to the Chinese Communist Party. In what is believed to be the strongest congressional proposal yet to combat Hollywood’s growing capitulation to the Chinese Communist Party, Senator Cotton (R-CA) recently introduced a proposal that would require the U.S. federal government to ban Chinese Communist investment in the U.S. entertainment industry and require U.S. studios to dissolve their joint ventures in China.
The unprecedented proposal would enable U.S. studios to produce content free from the influence and censorship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Senator Cotton said in his “Defeating China (CCP)” strategy report released Thursday, Feb. 18. The report outlines Senator Cotton’s larger effort to disengage U.S. business from Beijing, with a focus on telecommunications, semiconductors, the medical field and other industries.
In a speech at the Reagan Institute and making the report public, Senator Cotton said, “We need to defeat this evil empire and sweep the Chinese Communist Party – just like it did the (Soviet) Bolsheviks – into the historical the ashes of history.”
Hollywood studios, in their search for greater profits, have become increasingly addicted to Chinese Communist investments and the Chinese fan market. As a result, they have welcomed Chinese companies into all levels of the American film industry, from blockbuster movie financing to the film festival business, with China’s Dalian Wanda Group becoming the owner of AMC Theatres, the largest movie chain in the United States.
But the Chinese Communist Party’s money comes with strings attached. U.S. studios are required to self-censor their content to avoid offending Beijing, they are required to write scripts that portray China under the CCP in a “positive light,” and they are required to turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses committed by Beijing.
One example of this is Walt disney‘s film on Xinjiang. Disney, which filmed part of the live-action “Mulan” movie in Xinjiang, has also been silent about the CCP’s human rights abuses in the region.
In his report “Defeating the Chinese Communist Party,” Senator Cotton called the CCP “a powerful totalitarian.
In the report, he said, “The United States must realize that Culture and information are the battlegrounds on which to compete with China (the CCP). To do so, the U.S. must ensure that Hollywood can produce its content without malicious foreign influence and that the Chinese Communist Party cannot control what Americans can watch.
“Therefore, the federal government should prohibit Chinese (CCP) investment in U.S. film studios and streaming services. U.S. entertainment companies should divest from Chinese sources and dissolve existing joint ventures. The U.S. government should also prohibit Chinese investment in platforms that broadcast movies and TV shows in the U.S., such as movie theater companies and cable and broadcast TV providers. Assuming AMC Theatres survives the Great Plague, the U.S. government should require it to separate from Dalian Wanda.”
Senator Cotton has become one of the most outspoken critics of the Chinese Communist Party in the U.S. Congress. His report, released Feb. 18, concludes by urging Hollywood business leaders to wake up to the Chinese Communist threat. He said of it.
“Entertainment executives (in the U.S.) must understand that the CCP, while a profitable partner in the short term, is ultimately hostile to their freedom and creativity. They (meaning Hollywood) must confront this threat by putting their ideas ahead of their own short-term financial interests, just as courageous artists did with the totalitarian regimes of the past.”
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