Beijing Exploits Hollywood to Project a Positive Image of the CCP: Report

A billboard along Hollywood's famed Sunset Strip from the Center for American Security as part of its "China Owns US" campaign in Hollywood, Calif., on Aug. 29, 2016. The billboard highlights communist China's increasing influence over the U.S. movie industry, specifically AMC Entertainment, described as China's red puppet, following its 2012 sale to Chinese firm Dalian Wanda, closely aligned with the Chinese Communist Party, for $2.6 billion and control of 4,960 screens nationwide. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

Beijing is manipulating Western movie and film production, especially in Hollywood, to project a positive image of itself to the world, according to a September report by a French military think tank.

The 650-page report aims at exposing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s all-encompassing global influence tactics. On the cultural front, the report pointed out that the CCP has been exerting control over Hollywood studios through blacklisting, limiting access to the Chinese market, and content censorship.