China’s Growing Influence on Hollywood

For years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using a variety of methods to infiltrate the Hollywood film industry.

Security guards stand at the entrance of the Wanda Qingdao Movie Metropolis before its opening ceremony in Qingdao, China's Shandong province on April 28, 2018. WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images

For years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using a variety of methods to infiltrate the Hollywood film industry. In the remarks U.S. vice president Mike Pence delivered on Oct. 4, he gave two examples about Hollywood films having been revised in order to pass the CCP’s censorship so that they could enter the huge Chinese market.

Pence explained how the CCP tries to penetrate the United States in all aspects. “Beijing is employing a whole-of-government approach, using political, economic, and military tools, as well as propaganda, to advance its influence and benefit its interests in the United States,” he said in the speech, delivered at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.