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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MechAg94 on September 08, 2020, 07:14:34 PM
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Disney's 'Mulan' Reboot Thanks Chinese Group in Charge of Muslim 'Reeducation' Camps
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2020/09/08/disney-movie-thanks-chinese-group-in-charge-of-muslim-reeducation-camps-n907166
Apparently in the credits for the new Mulan movie, Disney thanks the security burea that is in charge the Muslim camps. It seems they shot most of the movie in the area.
Disney has apparently worked hand-in-glove with those who run Uyghur concentration camps in Xinjiang province where numerous human rights violations have been cataloged. More than a million Uyghur Muslims have been incarcerated in terrible conditions. The Walt Disney film Mulan (2020) gave thanks in its credits to the very same “Turpan Public Security Bureau” that human rights groups say manages construction of the camps and hiring police to staff them.
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On the one hand, if you are going to do business in China, you are going to have to work with the Chinese government at some level, and I imagine publicly thanking them (no matter how odious they may be) is par for the course.
On the other, Studios have refused to film in states they deemed insufficiently progressive ... so that is interesting.
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Best Case: Just necessary to film a Chinese story in China.
Worst Case: Some Disney execs got new organs for free.