This is CBSI In The World. I'm John Batser. Isaac Stonefish is the author of America's

second, his new book, How America's Elites Are Making China Stronger. The politicians

are not well paid, but they're certainly in the news all the time. These celebrities

are extremely well paid, and they're in the news when they make political statements.

Richard Gare, one of the great Hollywood romantic stars of the 20th century, I learned from

Isaac that Richard Gare disappeared from my understanding of who's a big star because

he's a man of principle. The principle for Richard Gare was Tibet. And what do we know

Isaac about China reaching out and crushing or delimiting Richard Gare's career?

The early 90s, Richard Gare gave a very moving, very quick-sodic speech at the Oscars,

criticizing Deng Xiaoping the then leader of China for the occupation of Tibet, and asking for

consciousness towards what was happening. And that and the recent, at the recent understanding,

the recent awakening of ideas about the Bali Lama in Hollywood led to this period where in the

mid-90s, the cause in Hollywood was Tibet. And the feel-good celebrity was the Dalai Lama,

and Richard Gare was his most prominent supporter. And this happened until 1996, 1997, the high point

of the movement, those three films we discussed before, Kunjun, Red Corner, Seven Years in Tibet,

and Beijing realized that they could convince Hollywood to stop making films that had portrayals

of China that they found critical. And they didn't happen overnight, and Gare's career didn't

die overnight. It was a long, sophisticated, secretive process. But what happened by the mid-2010s

was Hollywood executives had developed this voice in the back of their head, which would say,

is this going to offend China? Is this going to offend the Chinese Communist Party?

If so, we're not going to do it. The last film that I was able to find from Hollywood,

the last major film that had anything in it, critical of China, was the departed, which came out

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