Pentagon Proposes New Rules for Blocking Support to Films Swayed by CCP

The Defense Department is required to reject requests to aid films, TV programs, and computer-based games that comply with Chinese Communist Party censorship.

A production team with the CBS television series "SEAL Team" films a scene at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., on Jan. 14, 2019. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Drake Nickels/Public Domain

The U.S. Department of Defense has proposed a new framework for determining whether a film or television production receiving U.S. military assistance is bowing to the demands of Chinese communist regime censors.

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023 included a provision barring the U.S. military from providing film production assistance for projects that are likely to or have already complied with censorship requests of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).