Disney hit by backlash after thanking Xinjiang authorities in 'Mulan' credits

[Victoria33]

Lila Rose tweeted:

Lila Rose
@LilaGraceRose
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Despicable:

Georgia signs a law protecting babies in the womb after a heartbeat can be detected & **
@Disney
** pulls out of filming.

The Chinese gov forcibly slaughters women’s babies while dragging Uyghurs into concentration camps & Disney thanks the government & ramps up filming.

She’s absolutely correct, I won’t be seeing this movie for sure.

Where “MULAN” was filmed in part, apparently is in this area of conflict with the Uighurs, in the state of Xianjiang. Where indeed, the work camps, reeducation camps, however you describe them are located.

Disney hit by backlash after thanking Xinjiang authorities in ‘Mulan’ credits​

By Ben Westcott and Selina Wang, CNN Business

Updated 11:57 PM ET, Tue September 8, 2020
Disney hit by backlash after thanking Xinjiang authorities in ‘Mulan’ credits

Hong Kong (CNN Business)Disney has publicly thanked a Chinese government agency accused of human rights abuses in Xinjiang for its help in making “Mulan” — a revelation that has provoked a storm of criticism online.

Disney (DIS) acknowledges several Chinese government bodies in the credits for the live-action remake of the 1998 animated picture of the same name, but a few in particular have raised red flags: The Xinjiang government’s publicity department and the Public Security and Tourism bureaus for Turpan, a city of about 633,400 people just outside Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi.

Disney did not respond to a request for comment from CNN Business to its media inquiry line, and to US press officers about the film and the credits. It’s not clear how much of “Mulan” may have been shot in Xinjiang, though people who worked on the movie have said on social media and in interviews that they scouted and filmed locations there.

More at:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/08/media/mulan-controversy-xinjiang-credits-intl-hnk/index.html?utm_content=2020-09-08T17:11:02&utm_source=twCNN&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social

Now, protests, oppression is apparently going on in China with the Mongols in the North, serious unrest as well, as of course, in Hong Kong to the South. Sad.

Yes, many are calling for a boycott. I certainly will.

 

[27lw]

Yeah!
Now we just need the same controversy over Google, FB, Apple, etc who censor to appease the same Chinese government.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/disneys-mulan-faces-controversy-over-filming-in-chinas-xinjiang-11599586711

 

[Useless]

Other than mainstream Western media reports (fake news), CIA reports (agit-prop), or other Western intelligence reports (tools of the CIA) what evidence is there of a “genocide” against the Uighurs?

Seems awfully convenient that everytime warhawks in America want to kill somebody that suddenly the target is committing a genocide. Also seems strange that a Uighur girl was the star of a Chinese girl group popstar show while Uighurs are being genocided…

 

[Victoria33]

Other than mainstream Western media reports (fake news), CIA reports (agit-prop), or other Western intelligence reports (tools of the CIA) what evidence is there of a “genocide” against the Uighurs?

Seems awfully convenient that everytime warhawks in America want to kill somebody that suddenly the target is committing a genocide. Also seems strange that a Uighur girl was the star of a Chinese girl group popstar show while Uighurs are being genocided…

Read the news? Hear of the United Nations?

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/04/887239225/china-suppression-of-uighur-minorities-meets-u-n-definition-of-genocide-report-s

If the Far East press is saying this is happening, India, Taiwan too say it’s happening, it doesn’t lend much credence to your “Blame the US”, “Blame Warhawks” talk. Namecalling, wow. How compassionate.

But we always hear this kind of stuff.

Catholic Church oppressed in China? What do we deny everything?

Tibet? And on and on.

 

[Useless]

I don’t think its impossible that there is persecution of Uighurs in China, I don’t even think it is impossible that there is a genocide. However, I also refuse to just buy into the idea.

The UN is entirely untrustworthy, India is an economic foe of China and also is an ally of the US, and Taiwan is literally the mortal enemy of the mainland government. Those are not trustworthy sources.

China’s government is bad, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they are committing a genocide. But since the CIA and their tools (Western Media) are proven liars, it is pretty hard to convince me of anything they say. My base assumption is that the CIA is always lying unless proven otherwise.

 

[Useless]

Also it is not “namecalling” to accuse the CIA of being warhawks. They’ve started more wars in the last 70 years than the Soviets ever did.

 

[Pattylt]

I’m surprised the anger is directed over credits…which are ALWAYS given to areas/countries that allow filming in their country.

I heard that the protests were against the star of the show for her promotion and thanking China about Hong Kong. People were pretty outraged when she went against Western ideas of treatment of the protesters.

Disney posting thank you credits for filming rights seems rather petty?

 

[Victoria33]

So the US is trying to go to war with China, deep, wow, that’s good.

I’m surprised the anger is directed over credits…which are ALWAYS given to areas/countries that allow filming in their country.

I heard that the protests were against the star of the show for her promotion and thanking China about Hong Kong. People were pretty outraged when she went against Western ideas of treatment of the protesters.

Disney posting thank you credits for filming rights seems rather petty?

Well, CNN’s article is not carved in stone, I’m sure it’s all of this. I didn’t vet the article for particulars.

 

[gam197]

I’m surprised the anger is directed over credits…which are ALWAYS given to areas/countries that allow filming in their country.

M impression was that it was filmed in the area where these groups were.

. Filming began in August 2018 and lasted through November, taking place in New Zealand and China. With a production budget of $200 million, it is the most expensive film ever made by a female director.

The first Mulan was also filmed in China.

Now that there is a Disney Channel and Mulan 2020 was scheduled to be shown for free, possibly it raised more controversy.

 

[Victoria33]

I will look at all facts, Chinese dissidents and so on. No, I don’t think we or anyone else is trying to get into a shooting war with China.

 

[TK421]

I have mixed feelings about Chinese boycotts. On one hand they do some deplorable things, on the other hand all sorts of corrupt things happen from governments in smaller countries that goes under the radar merely because they don’t have China’s political or economic power and it doesn’t come up in Western news very much, if ever. Thirdly, there’s no shortage of grave evil in the United States.

Basically, it makes me question where it ends and where the line is drawn in terms of who to boycott and who not to boycott. It seems somewhat arbitrary to boycott one thing but then to not also boycott dozens of other things. But as far as this movie goes I don’t think I’ll watch it until I can watch it for free.

 

[Victoria33]

The virus probably started there, the wet markets are barbaric. They have most of their neighboring countries upset except another totalitarian state they probably prop up, North Korea. Quashing protests in Hong Kong, accused of organ harvesting of prisoners which, if one reads closely, they may have had admitted to but say that that is the past. People can be sympathetic to such a regime but I certainly won’t be.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Could it be that back in 1998, Disney Producers were not aware of the treatment of Uyghurs by the Chinese government ?

Hindsight is 20/20, and in the US today, revenge is at the forefront while understanding is nonexistent.

 

[JSRG]

The first Mulan was also filmed in China.

How? The first Mulan was animated.

 

[gam197]

gam197:

The first Mulan was also filmed in China.

How? The first Mulan was animated.

Sorry wrong on filming in China. . It was animated; it was a long time ago in 1998 and I have seen it

In 1994, the production team sent a select group of artistic supervisors to China for three weeks to take photographs and drawings of local landmarks for inspiration; and to soak up local culture.[16] Key members of the creative team at the time – Pam Coats, Barry Cook, Ric Sluiter, Robert Walker, and Mark Henn – were invited to travel to China as a research trip to study the landscape, people, and history of the original legend. From June 17 to July 2, 1994, the research trip flew to Beijing, China, which is where Pam Coats became inspired by the placement of flags on the Great Wall. They also toured Datong, Luoyang, Xi’an, Jiayuguan, Dunhuang, and Guilin.[17]

. There was the 2009 version of Mulan but that was not made by Disney.

Mulan 2020 is available on Disney Plus at a cost of $29.99 extra so they are testing the market.

 

[Rockoh22]

My family and I are talking about not watching Mulan. And it is a movie we like.

 

[ZemD]

Anyone looking for an authoritative source on what China is doing to the Uyghurs, I’d encourage you to visit this website, bitterwinter.org.

I don’t want to support Disney or the CCP in any way. It is much easier to cut off Disney completely, I hope in the future it is just as easy to refrain from buying anything made in China.

Disney has made lots of decisions I disagree with, like Lila Rose stated, they stopped filming in Georgia because of their heartbeat bill.
If Disney wants to stand on the side of killing children, I’d be a fool if I let my children watch anything they put out.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

From what I understood in the article, it’s when the Mulan animated film was created and Disney thanked the Chinese government for it.

The new movie is based on the animated version.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

From the article in the OP;

Disney (DIS) acknowledges several Chinese government bodies in the credits for the live-action remake of the 1998 animated picture of the same name, but a few in particular have raised red flags: The Xinjiang government’s publicity department and the Public Security and Tourism bureaus for Turpan, a city of about 633,400 people just outside Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi.

If Disney would’ve known is unlikely. Communist governments are good at hiding it’s atrocities.

Heck, US Corporations have been sending US manufacturing to China all through the 1990’s and up until recently when Trump put the hammer down on China.

No complaints from the left when Biden was part of Congress negotiating the anti-American worker trade deals back when Bill Clinton was president.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

We know about it today, but the Mulan movie was made long before the knowledge got out.

I don’t know why I’m defending Disney, as they’ve been an anti-Catholic business for decades.

I guess I just don’t like the left wing smear campaigns that have been taking place against people and businesses, even those who are not on my side.