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In reply to the discussion: So you can't badmouth China or they ban you and your work. [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I think it's that the producers believe the box office returns are more important than writing one nationality rather than another, as the final decision to include or exclude a demographic would be made wholly by the producers rather than a foreign government.
And as the final decision lies with the producers, it would be much more valid to say "Hollywood's censorship tactics are dictating what we Americans get to see...." which has been the case since Edison's Kinetoscope hit the Chicago arcades.
As I've watched movies that did indeed have Chinese antagonists, I imagine the Chinese are not in fact, above criticism; merely that the producers enjoy profits as large as possible-- in other words, as large an audience as possible. I think many computer game companies that make simulations dealing with WWII do this also by excluding the Nazi flag so that German consumers may by the products also.
"Why, exactly, do we trade with these guys again?"
Money, profits, and combined economies of scale... I've never known economics to allow ethics or morality to take priority in the industrialized world-- unless it was motivated first by profit.