At some point after 2008, I want to say around 2010 or 2012, Hollywood started putting China in their movies more. The ones that stick out to me are Transformers (the first one with Wahlberg), The Martian, Avengers 2, Looper. There are more.
I know Disney tried really hard with Mulan but failed. There was that big Chinese-produced movie with Matt Damon, no idea how well that did.
When do you think this thing will stop and go the other way? At some point Hollywood libs are going to fall in line. When will they give up on China as a market and make money off not only ignoring their market but also insulting their market? I can see a big return of the 80s action movie aesthetic with Chinese bad guys and advanced foreign invaders.
The interesting thing (I guess) is that there is a cap on the amount of American movies that can be shown in movie theaters in China. So years where the China "pandering" was the most obvious across the most amount of big US movies were the years where competition was highest.
I believe that internally, China has made some changes in how things are allowed to be marketed and are obviously beefing up funds/marketing for domestically made movies. Why ban "Western" movies when you can get your population to not want to even see them in the first place? Genius move, honestly.
They say more and more Chinese citizens have a poorer and poorer view of western culture
If only Avengers: Endgame was screened in Beijing, then they'd see how great we are! Stupid anti-fun commie bastards.