Viewers spotted that Disney included"special thanks" to eight government entities in Xinjiang, including the public security bureau in Turpan, a city in eastern Xinjiang where multiple internment camps have been documented.
The lavish $200 million film about a legendary female Chinese warrior was already tangled in political controversy after star Liu Yifei voiced support for Hong Kong's police as they cracked down on democracy protests last year. Isaac Stone Fish, a senior fellow at the Asia Society, said the film was now "arguably Disney's most problematic movie" since "Song of the South", a 1946 glorification of antebellum plantation life that the company has since pulled."Disney has thanked four propaganda departments and a public security bureau in Xinjiang, a region in northwest China that is the site of one of the world's worst human rights abuses happening today.
Instead, Disney rocked the industry by announcing the film would in streamed into living rooms in many markets, including the US, which it started Friday.Hollywood has been increasingly accused of hypocrisy over its relationship with authoritarian China. But it also means completely avoiding sensitive issues including Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong politics, Xinjiang and the portrayal of LGBTQ characters, the report said.Xinjiang is a resource-rich region home to mostly Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs and boasts spectacular desert and mountain backdrops.After sectarian unrest and attacks by Uighur militants, Beijing blanketed the region in a draconian security crackdown, building dozens of huge internment camps.
Activists in all three places have launched multiple online campaigns critical of China's authoritarianism.
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