With all of Hollywood's posturing, they never do it with China.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stomstreet with The Point.

In 2020, box office revenue in China officially surpassed that of North America.

As Shirley Lee writes in The Atlantic, filmmakers and actors have always been subject to bosses

who decide which movies get to soar at the box office.

Now more than ever, that boss is Beijing.

Perfect example was Fast and Furious star

John Cena's backbending apology to China for calling Taiwan a country. Another is the potential

ban facing Marvel's The Eternals because its director, Chloe Zhao, was recorded criticizing

the Chinese Communist Party eight years ago. Repeatedly US film.S. film companies are posturing themselves as courageous defenders of human

rights by vocally opposing laws in states like Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas.

But then they're deafening doing business in China, a country actively imprisoning a million

Uyghur Muslims, with massive slave labor camps and with no freedom of any kind when it comes to journalism.

Hollywood just mostly listens to the money.

The hope has been that Western values would somehow infiltrate China and change it from the inside.

But the opposite is what's happening.

There's nothing like the allure of massive profit to drown out our collective conscience.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.