You're really trying to drive your point with Hollywood taking its profits in China. Do you know what kind of hoops they have to jump through to access that market?

Take Gravity for instance. The reckless nation that shoots down the satellite causing all the damage is Russia when it was China in real life.

China then saved our heroine when its the Russians we've worked and continued to work with. Why? It's because they're chasing the Yuan while giving away soft power to China.

> Do you know what kind of hoops they have to jump through to access that market?

Yes. I thought my comment made that pretty clear. But is hollywood entitled to the chinese market? You act like the chinese owe us their market like we own them.

>Take Gravity for instance. The reckless nation that shoots down the satellite causing all the damage is Russia when it was China in real life.

I know. That's why I wrote "Or china setting aside X number of hollywood movies to show in their huge movie market. Of course hollywood is going to give something for a portion of china's movie market share."

Well, it's called the chinese market for a reason. It belongs to china. Their house, their rules. Why would china give their markets to foreigners without anything in return? Do you think we open our markets without anything in return? Do you think europe does? Or russia? Every nation or bloc protects their markets and demands something in return for access. Maybe the chinese go overboard with it, but as I said, it's their market. They can do whatever they want.

How do you think China's technology and education improved so drastically just a few decades after the cultural revolution?

It was the US giving its technology, military weaponry, college education, etc. to Chinese nationals. Their entry into the World Bank was supposed to come with freer markets and other reforms. Instead they run over peaceful protestors with tanks and seize all cameras from international reporters.

China doesn't respect our patents and conduct corporate espionage at the state level. They brazenly hack our corporations and governments. They don't allow our companies to compete fairly as theirs are propped up by the state.

They can't have their cake and eat it too and I believe its time for Western powers to come down hard on China and its unfair market practices.

> How do you think China's technology and education improved so drastically just a few decades after the cultural revolution?

Because the chinese leadership decided to make it a priority?

> It was the US giving its technology, military weaponry, college education, etc. to Chinese nationals.

Oh we did? Out of the kindess of our hearts? I thought we "gave" them technology, military weaponry, college education, etc in exchange for something? What was that? Oh yeah that's right, their gigantic cheap labor force. Using your logic, china gave us the tech industry and the modern world.

> Their entry into the World Bank was supposed to come with freer markets and other reforms.

You mean the WTO. Right? You clearly have no idea what you are talking about if you don't know the difference between WTO and World Bank.

> China doesn't respect our patents and conduct corporate espionage at the state level.

Oh dear. You mean china does what is in china's interests? Do you know who doesn't respect our patents and conducts espionage? Canada, Mexico and every ally of ours.

> Instead they run over peaceful protestors with tanks and seize all cameras from international reporters.

Wow? They have a version of kent state too? And seizing cameras from foreigners? Do they owe international reporters anything? Once again, you are pretending we own china. Like I said, their house, their rules.

> They don't allow our companies to compete fairly as theirs are propped up by the state.

Like everyone else? You do realize that we accuse the EU of unfairly proppping up Airbus right? And they accuse us of propping up Boeing? There are even accusations between us and canada over their subsidizing of bombardier.

> They can't have their cake and eat it too and I believe its time for Western powers to come down hard on China and its unfair market practices.

Who are you? You believe? Yes, "western powers" are going to listen to you. We are going to base our geopolitical decisions on someone who confuses the world bank with the WTO.

If we felt that china's trade practices were unfair, we could always not trade with them? But I wonder why so many companies and industries are desperate to do business with and in china? Perhaps their business practices aren't so unfair? I don't know.

Or maybe the CEOs of trillion dollar companies like apple aren't as smart as you.

I was actually referring to the World Bank [0] but feel free to attack me personally.

I wasn't initially sure why you shifted to ad hominem all of a sudden but I see that you're on a throwaway for a reason. You don't have a base belief, you are simply shouting a tautology that things are happening because things are happening. It doesn't take a genius geopolitical expert to see that China is doing things because it's in China's best interest.

If you can't see that China has a unfair advantage in the global market and that their regime is a threat to our democratic system, then there's no point arguing. If you feel that their political system is superior to ours, I pray that you're not an ethnic minority.

China entices all business and western powers with "look, we're shifting towards free(er) markets but our big monolithic government is just slow at enacting changes" while ensuring that they fail.

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1067056070119447...

Chinese government is unelected and does bad things, that is true. The current US administration is also bad — separating families seeking asylum, being the only country in the world to leave the Paris climate agreement etc.

> But is hollywood entitled to the chinese market?

No, it isn't, but in my opinion Chinese people (not their government) should have the right to decide who to accept in their market or not. Currently, they do not.