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Lately the relationship has been thorny, and a question looms: Is Hollywood doing anything about it?

Rising tensions

For anyone who hasn’t been keeping tabs on things, consider what went down in September alone. First a PR crisis erupted over the Disney film Mulan, when it was pointed out that the film’s end credits thanked a number of Chinese entities in Xinjiang for allowing the company to film in the area, a region where authorities have been accused of running “reeducation camps” that detain minority Muslim Uighurs. It was the film’s second comms crisis. The first came last year when star actress Yifei Liu posted her support of Hong Kong police on Weibo (loosely analogous to Twitter) despite their excessive force against pro-democracy protesters resisting the mainland Chinese government.

The end-credit scandal prompted Republican Senator Marco Rubio and…