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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
, and ways of doing things that had strengthened democratic governance in some of the more successful post-au- thoritarian societies, especially in Central Europe. More recently, modern authoritarian regimes have turned this concept on its head by sharing their own experiences with laws and tactics that have
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
Germany, China’s interests would be accommodated more than now, Germany is also an indirect target of China’s efforts directed at the 16—1 group in Central Europe and within the EU. Among the sixteen Central and Eastern European countries (eleven of them EU member states) gathered in the 16—1 group, the expecta
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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
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