Senator Ted Cruz Proposed a New Bill Blocking CCP Propaganda and Censorship in Hollywood Movies

The western world is now more and more alert about the cultural infiltration coming from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Recently, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz proposed a new bill aimed at blocking the infiltration from the CCP in Hollywood and restoring the tradition of American films promoting the right values. On April 28, Senator Ted Cruz, introduced a new bill called “SCRIPT Act”, which stands for “Stopping Censorship, Restoring Integrity, Protecting Talkies". The goal of the bill is to prevent the Department of Defense from giving technological assistance and authorizing the use of assets to movie companies and film studios that accommodate to Chinese censorship. Normally, Hollywood films that wish to portray real military plots would seek assistance from the Pentagon. Ted Cruz tweeted the following on April 28: “For too long, Hollywood has been complicit in China’s censorship and propaganda in the name of bigger profits. The SCRIPT Act will serve as a wake-up call by forcing Hollywood studios to choose between the assistance they need from the American government and the dollars they want from China.” The CCP has been infiltrating the film industry for a long time. Soviet Union leader, Joseph Stalin, once said he did not need anything else to transform the entire world into communism if he had control over American film media. A typical example of Chinese regime’s great foreign policy is the movie theater operator of Wanda Group, owned by Wang Jian-Lin. As a businessman, he claimed to have a close relationship with the Chinese regime. From his acquisitions of American Multi-Cinema (AMC Theaters), Carmike Cinemas, the second largest movie exhibitor in Australia, The Hoyts Group, to the acquisition of the largest cinema group in Europe, Odeon and UCI Cinema Group, Wang’s corporation controls about 20% of the world’s big screens. Commentator on current affairs, Zhao Pei, said, “In addition to Wang Jian-Lin’s Wanda Group, Alibaba is also doing the same thing in the film industry. During the process of building the corporation, Wang Jian-Lin once said that he would not show movies that criticize the Chinese regime suppressing human rights. For instance, movies involving live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners have no chances at his theaters because he is not going to show the Americans all the nasty things done by the CCP. Therefore, he is simply a chess piece on a chess board played by the CCP, and when we look at the bigger picture, he is just the equivalent of Phoenix TV in Hong Kong.” The owner of Phoenix TV in Hong Kong, Liu Chang-Le, has Chinese military background and is considered an overseas branch of the Chinese state-run media. Senator Ted Cruz also proposed to ban Chinese propaganda directed to Americans using Mexican and Canadian radio stations, and further pointed out that Hong Kong’s Phoenix TV is sending out political propaganda in the U.S. through a radio station in Mexico. These new bills are a part of the campaign launched by Senator Ted Cruz to confront the CCP’s infiltration in American culture and education.