Quite out of the blue, China suddenly revealed to the world that it now enjoys global hegemony over all entertainment.
On Sunday, Blizzard, the company behind Diablo and World of Warcraft, stripped a Hearthstone champion of his title and prize money for making a pro-Hong Kong statement.
The AAA game publisher would go on to double, triple, and quadruple down–what number are they on now? It’s hard to keep up–on their slavish devotion to Chinese money.
Here’s Blizzard apologizing to China for the incident:
This, despite a walk-out staged by Blizzard employees at their Irvine campus.
It’s worth noting that Tencent Limited, a Chinese holding company, owns a 5% stake in Blizzard. 12% of Blizzard’s revenues come from East Asia.
Let’s not forget that China is a communist country. A Chinese company is the Chinese government. More on the implications of that fact in a moment.
Video game companies aren’t the only ones tripping over themselves to pay homage to the Reds. The NBA dismayed sportsball fans nationwide with a series of obsequious displays meant to protect their share of the Chinese market.
Meanwhile, it’s hardly a secret that China is buying up Hollywood.
Looking at the big picture, it’s not hard to see the recent spate of American entertainment companies kowtowing to China as the result of purposeful Chinese flexing. They want us to know who owns our entertainment industry.
While the venal boot-licking of outfits like Blizzard and the NBA rightly heaps shame on their heads, I don’t find Chinese control of the US entertainment sector particularly troubling.
We already know that our home-grown entertainment industry hates us. Yes, the Chinese are censoring people over politics. That’s actually refreshing compared to the current paradigm of being censored over moral issues.
If China taking over games, movies, and professional sports means swapping Death Cult propaganda, which targets the moral level, for Commie propaganda, which targets the political level, I’ll call it an improvement.
The lesson of 2016 is that politics doesn’t matter. It’s the culture, stupid!
And the biggest potential silver lining regarding China’s entertainment industry dominance is the fact that they probably won’t be Commies for long.
As I’ve written here before, China is on track to become the world’s most Christian nation by 2030 and majority Christian by 2050.
Think of it. Chinese communists take over Hollywood. A few years later, China is still in charge, only the Commies are now Christians.
We might actually have a shot at getting a Combat Frame XSeed movie made at that point. Read it now so you’re ready for the premiere!
