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There's a monopoly angle here too [1]. I remember doing a face-palm when I watched "Gravity." The whole conflict centers around a cascade of space-junk caused
by rmrfstar 6y ago
There's a monopoly angle here too [1].
I remember doing a face-palm when I watched "Gravity." The whole conflict centers around a cascade of space-junk caused by Russia shooting it's own spy satellite. In the movie, the Chinese space station saves the day. In reality, China actually shot down it's own satellite, rendering it's orbit and adjacent orbits unusable for the foreseeable future. [3]
I'm all for international cooperation, but we have to engage with reality.
[1] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-disney-part https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-disn...
[2] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-bill-clinton-and-american-financiers https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/how-bill-clinton-and-amer...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_missile_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...
- myopenid 6y agoLol. American movies also tend to romanticize the wars they wage.
- rmrfstar 6y agoMoxie gave a nice talk about American action movies [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOMiAeRwpPA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOMiAeRwpPA
- MagnumOpus 6y agoWhataboutism, and false equivalence between movie makers distorting their own country's history (of which PRC is even more guilty than the US), and movie makers giving in to a foreign country's threats and whitewashing that country's crimes.
- myopenid 6y agoConsider it as a compliment that China thinks your propaganda is too potent for the Chinese population to handle.