Throughout our ongoing struggles with China, one key battle appears to have already been won by our adversary: the battle for arts and entertainment.
Boasting a population of over 1.4 billion people, many of whom have the financial means to pay for and consume a wide variety of forms of entertainment, their market share for television, movies, and art rivals that of the actual country that produces the films, the United States.
With a powerful government that has no qualms about restricting both media and the messages that its citizens consume, China has the ability to cut a movie’s box-office earnings in half, obliterate television show viewership numbers, and completely deny entertainers and celebrities any form of notoriety within their country at the push of a button…