www.thewrap.com: When it comes to China, President Trump is sticking to his tariff script — and he does not appear too worried about China’s communist government cutting the number of American movies it imports in retaliation.
“I think I’ve heard of worse things,” the president said, before smiling and chuckling during a Thursday press conference.
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This man is so aggravating. That is the best way I can describe it because he speaks with confidence and ignorance. I’m not entirely aware of all of the movie relations that happened between China and America, but when a country that is so big and so important to an industry when a president says that it doesn’t matter to him that one of our industries could not be making as much money as it could it doesn’t matter to him is honestly not as shocking as it should be because of the president now. I don’t think there was a lot of thought behind what he said, and I don’t think he’s even aware of the movie industry and our relations with them. It’s also important as a society that we be able to watch different cultures in their movies and films. Restricting that and having the restrictions in place will not help other people moving forward because you cannot grow your knowledge of different cultures and environments. I also think movies are such an essential part of our culture in this generation that having restrictions on movies will not end well for anyone. Social media and advertising have made movies such a big deal that being disadvantaged is never ideal.
A great big ol’ pissing match. Another way for trump to take shots at anyone to make him seem “productive”. The ill-tempered baby can not decide what he will flop on next meanwhile hundreds of thousands of citizens and businesses struggle with the uncertainty of an artificial tariff completely wiping out the bottomline of any savings or profits that anyone would have had. It’s like bringing back some of the worst parts of covid with production and shipping lines needing to be completely revamped. The best thing I see coming out of this is the reduction of cheap clothes and items flooding into the united states especially with the introduction of direct shipping from amazon and temu, cheap goods coming thousands of miles to get here with substandard production lines relying on mass production, slave labor, and pollutants flooding through the factory and goods and poisoning americans. It’s all shit.
While Donald Trump may not understand how foreign policy works, those who understand the importance of soft power are losing their minds right now (including my mother, who has a masters in International Economic Relations from the Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv). This loss of the Chinese market, while devastating for the film industry, as that is a huge pot of revenue and viewership, is also another massive blow to America’s standing on the global stage. Soft power, to put it simply, is the amount of influence a country has beyond its military forces. Japan, for example, has a huge amount of soft power, as the cultural exports that it brings to the world reach far further than its military standings, and still give its nation a lot of influence on the global stage. While the US is known globally for its military power, the US has a certain amount of soft power that we get, mostly from entertainment exports, that allows the US to maintain a somewhat benevolent image, even to our enemies, and gives the world positive opinions of the US beyond our politics. Losing that in a country that famously teaches its youth to fear us is a huge blow to our global standing, and it will mean China’s civilian population will begin to lose any opinion it has of America beyond our leadership, which is not a good thing for us. The US needs to be able to separate its people from its leadership right now, and the entertainment industry is kind of our only hope for that.
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