U.S. Sen. Speaking to the media during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton said that the Chinese Communist Party‘s (CCP) money spill to Hollywood has caused many producers to stop using the CCP and its members as villains and bad guys in their movies.
Senator Cotton commented on Hollywood’s ties to the CCP in an interview with Breitbart News during CPAC, which was published by Breitbart on March 1.
Senator Cotton argued that back in the Cold War, Hollywood producers often used former Soviet communists as villains in their films. In the modern era, however, Chinese communists have not been similarly portrayed as villains in Hollywood films. Cotton said its at least partly because the Chinese Communists provided Hollywood with the cash.
“When was the last Time you saw a Chinese (communist) bad guy in a movie? During the Cold War, Russian communists were always the bad guys. We would have thought Chinese communists would have provided great material for Hollywood movies, but you never saw one.” Congressman Cotton said.
In recent years, Hollywood has re-imagined the role of the “Chinese bad guy” so as to appease the Beijing authorities. Marvel Studios changed the villainous characterization of “The Mandarin” in “Iron Man 3,” a character born and raised in the Republic of China in the original comics, with Genghis Khan and British aristocratic ancestry. Despite this, “Iron Man 3” uses British actor Ben Kingsley as the villain. Despite this, Iron Man 3 uses British actor Ben Kingsley as “Lord Manchu” to erase the Chinese image of the villainous bad guy character.
In addition, the Chinese Communist Party has sidelined Taiwan in Hollywood movies. For example, Senator Cotton noted, “In fact, in Top Gun 2, Tom Cruise is the lead actor in the film. In fact, in Top Gun 2, Tom Cruise had to take the Taiwanese flag off his pilot’s jacket because of Chinese opposition. Why is that? Well, partly because China (the Chinese Communist Party) provides so much money to Hollywood studios. It’s also because Hollywood wants access to the Chinese market.”
Paramount Pictures’ “Top Gun:Maverick” was financed in part by China’s Tencent Pictures.
Tencent also has a stake in Hollywood production company Skydance Media, with which it co-financed the Hollywood blockbuster Terminator: Dark Fate, starring Hollywood action star Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) starred.
On February 18 of this year, Senator Cotton unveiled a strategic plan called “Defeat the Chinese Communist Party,” calling on the U.S. federal government to ban Chinese (Communist Party of China) investment in the U.S. entertainment industry. The plan also calls on Hollywood film producers to dissolve their joint ventures in China.
In the plan, “Defeating the CCP,” Senator Cotton outlines his tremendous efforts to rid U.S. business of the Beijing regime, with a particular focus on the telecommunications, semiconductor and healthcare sectors.
In a speech at the Reagan Institute when the plan was released, Cotton said, “We need to defeat this evil empire and sweep the Chinese Communist Party – just as it did the Bolsheviks (of the Soviet Communist Party) – into the ashes of history Go.”
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart at CPAC, Senator Cotton also slammed the Chinese Communist Party for trying to influence U.S. universities, colleges and research institutions through activities such as the Confucius Institute. He criticized current President Joe Biden for reversing former President Trump‘s order to impose strict regulations and restrictions on Confucius Institutes.
You also saw on college campuses,” Cotton said, “the first thing Joe Biden did. The first thing that Biden did was to reverse Donald Trump’s rules. Trump’s rules, Trump’s rules put more scrutiny on the so-called Confucius Institutes on our college campuses, and the Confucius Institutes are really just a way of spying or spying to get people hooked on Chinese (Communist Party of China) money and Chinese (Communist Party of China) influence. Therefore, Joe Biden’s decision to take over the presidency of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is a very important one. Some of the decisions that Biden made about China as soon as he took office were very troubling.”
In a broader sense, Senator Cotton believes that Biden’s decisions on policy and personnel once he took office signaled a very weak position on the CCP.
I’m concerned about the decisions and actions of the Biden Administration and some of its [Cabinet] nominees who are dismissive of China [the CCP],” Cotton said. President Trump has truly reshaped U.S. foreign policy toward China for the first time, recognizing that China (the CCP) is our top competitor in the world, that they are trying to take jobs away from our factories, trying to scare our allies, trying to make the CCP the number one power in the world economically and militarily.”
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