On August 5, PEN America, a non-profit organization that protects free expression in the U.S. and the world, published a report disclosing that Hollywood—tempted by the huge Chinese market—has been censoring itself to please Beijing. This has become the business model in Hollywood. Experts believe that this problem reaches far beyond Hollywood.

This 94-page-long report pointed out that Hollywood, being the most influential artistic and cultural medium in the world, has more than billions of audiences watching its films. But in the past decade, the U.S. film industry has been impacted by Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) censorship. Many major Hollywood production companies and producers are increasingly self-censoring their casts, scripts, and movie sets. They even directly invite CCP censors to participate in the movie sets so that they can be advised on how to avoid being censored.

The report also mentioned the strategy of “Borrowing a boat to go out on the ocean” used by the CCP to globalize its propaganda in order to influence foreign audiences. The CCP used this strategy to reach people who can’t be reached by news. The report said that the CCP censors can decide whether a film is permitted to be screened and promoted, and when they can release the film within China. This creates a huge uncertainty and even great costs for the studios.

Chinese scholar Wu Zuo-Lai indicated that self-censorship is very common in China and that PEN America’s independent investigation is a reminder to the American public of the dangers of the CCP culture, and that not even cultural giants like Hollywood can escape the temptations of the CCP. He believes that the blame is on the previous U.S. administrations.

Wu said that there may be some training in Hollywood to show guidance on how to avoid CCP’s censorship. But this is not the problem for Hollywood only, all businesses face the same problem. Politicians in Europe and in the United States need to come together to confront the CCP. It is very meaningful that the Trump administration is now using national power to fight the CCP, including the bans on TikTok and WeChat.

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