Epstein Secrets

n company, in 2016 and is said to be inter- ested in gaining control of a major Hollywood studio. American lawmakers were sufficiently disturbed by Wanda's initiatives to request a Justice Department in- vestigation. There is concern that China's companies, with state encouragement, are pursuing influ

h its rapid incursions into the U.S. film industry. Already the world's largest owner of cinemas, including the second-largest U.S. theater chain, Wanda purchased Legendary Entertainment, a production company, in 2016 and is said to be inter- ested in gaining control of a major Hollywood studio. Ame

8. Sarah Cook, The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Porty's Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, 2013), bttgAmysimaxtecLotgbypsaatentholoate2015/02/ (IIMA•rhing_,Sarah%7I1Cnnk pelf. 29. Michael Fors he and Alan Won "Timin of Editor's Firin Has

e company whose principals are US citizens, was the source of the money that funded a local ballot initiative in California that would have blocked a Wanda competitor from expanding. Wanda acknowledged that the money for the measure had come from Lakeshore, with which Wanda does business, in the form of

accounting for $2 million, followed by technology company ZTE ($510k), Sinopec ($384k),?> and the Wanda America Group ($300k), affiliated with Dalian Wanda.” More difficult to track is Chinese corporate participation in American trade associations. In early 2018, two Chinese companies have joined two maj

es. NOTES 1 Sarah Cook, “The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party’s Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World,” Center for International Media Assistance, October 22, 2013, accessed October 11, 2018, http://www.cima.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/CIMA-China_Sarah%20 Cook.pdf. 2 Juan Pablo Cardenal

with its rapid incursions into the U.S. film industry. Already the world’s largest owner of cinemas, including the second-largest U.S. theater chain, Wanda purchased Legendary Entertainment, a production company, in 2016 and is said to be inter- ested in gaining control of a major Hollywood studio. Ameri

28. Sarah Cook, The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Partys Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets around the World (Washington: Center for International Media Assistance, 2013), http://www.cima.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ CIMA-China_Sarah%20Cook.pdf. 29. Michael Forsythe and Alan Wong, “Timing of Editor's Fir