The Chinese come to the rescue of NASA and the movie literally concludes with one of the American heroes fist-bumping a Chinese astronaut on a joint mission back to Mars. It's a sad reminder of how bad the new cold war has become in just a few years.
2015: :wholesome: We can explore space together! :solidarity:
2022: President Xi is going to invade Taiwan at any moment LAUNCH THE NUKES NOW! :guts-rage:
:sadness:
If you look at the movie in that specific period of Hollywood, they were casting big chinese stars or actors in movies to cater to the Chinese market (this, Independence day: Resurgence, the Meg, etc) . In reality, NASA barred China from joint space project, which forced China to develop their own space program that is partially based on Russian/Ukrainian tech
The depiction of the Chinese is also anti CPC cause it implies that only scientists are good and the party is bad and that the secrecy hurts the people.
While ignoring all the secrecy the US got.
Where are you taking about? The US never hides new technologies from the world!
If I recall, NASA are barred from working with China due to a law passed by congress. The decision wasn't theirs to make.