[lentulusgracchus]

[Article] [I]n December, China Daily reported that increasing numbers of Chinese companies are looking to coopt Hollywood talent, “speeding up their internationalization and strengthening ties with their peers across the Pacific through direct investment in Hollywood, as the dream factor has seen financing from its home market drying up in recent years.”

Shapiro really backs into his main point. Simply walking through the open front door provided by this quote from a semiofficial source (they're all semiofficial -- even the official ones) would be a better way of arguing his point that Hollywood is getting into bed with some nasty actors (as in, Tienanmen), than going through a long narrative about how money is tight and the traditional distribution model and unionized movie production are ossified and financially burdensome.

As for replacing Chinese bad guys with the Norks, that change will fool nobody with the brainpower to realize that the Chinese could indeed incinerate several U.S. cities and put 40,000,000 men across the Bering Strait.

[expatguy]

I think that 99% of Americans dont have a clue as to how bad things can get.

The Chinese are determined to knock America down a peg or two - you can be assured of that

An American Expat in Southeast Asia