This is more than insipid diversion by Hollywood. The plot has a bunch of anti-communist military officers working with Taiwanese operatives to hijaak a ship with the US President and Chinese president. (They are on the QE2 for a summit on detaching nuclear weapons from the ICBMs.) The assailants steal the Chinese nuclear codes and demand US recognition of Taiwanese independence.
Aside from being a ridiculous plot, the slander against t he US right is simply part of ongoing indoctrination by the left.