{"id":19221,"date":"2023-01-15T13:48:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19221"},"modified":"2023-01-15T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T18:48:37","slug":"china-exhibiting-control-over-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/china-exhibiting-control-over-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"China exhibiting control over Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Hollywood studios want to release their movies in China, because of the large market. But the Chinese government won&#8217;t allow you to say certain things &#8212; they won&#8217;t allow you to say Taiwan is a country, and they won&#8217;t allow you to say the Dalai Lama is a great guy. Richard Gere found out the hard way about this &#8212; maybe he&#8217;s doing OK, but he&#8217;s also not making movies with big Hollywood studios.<\/p>\n<p>Mika Brzezinski on <strong>Morning Joe<\/strong> interviews Eric Schwartzel, who wrote a book on this topic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RW3DQgHjYuU\">How China Holds Economic Leverage Over Hollywood<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He points out that for decades the US has beamed its culture around the world with its movies, and China has learned that lesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Hollywood studios want to release their movies in China, because of the large market. But the Chinese government won&#8217;t allow you to say certain things &#8212; they won&#8217;t allow you to say Taiwan is a country, and they won&#8217;t allow you to say the Dalai Lama is a great guy. Richard Gere found out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6,32],"class_list":["post-19221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-movie","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20507,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19221\/revisions\/20507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}