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There are, lately, plenty of signs to choose from. In the past few months, China undertook the largest military exercises in the waters around Taiwan in almost three decades, and Americans learned about major recent hacks of the Treasury Department and several of the country’s largest telecommunications companies. President Trump announced the nominations of China hawks for secretary of state, ambassador to Beijing and under secretary of defense for policy, among other positions in the new government, having made an escalating tariff war with China as central to his third campaign as a border wall had been to his first. This month in Foreign Affairs, the conservative historian Niall Ferguson suggested America’s second Cold War was already at least five years old.

But if we are working through a strict comparison with the first Cold War, one big echo is conspicuously missing. For decades, part of how Americans made sense of their rivalry with the Soviet Union was through popular culture — movies and television and novels that dramatized and personalized the conflict, typically simplifying and mythologizing it as well. This time, there has been essentially none of that — no real effort in Hollywood to make use of high-stakes global conflict even as a narrative crutch or by more auteurish creators to explore the layered human complexity of such conflicts.

Not only is there no “Hunt for Red October”; there is also no “Dr. Strangelove” or real heir to John le Carré. That the United States is now engaged in some form of conflict with China has become a kind of commonplace among policy analysts and one of the few areas of consensus between the two political parties. But if there is a Cold War on, you wouldn’t know it from simply streaming movies or television, even if you left your favorite platform on auto-play forever. It’s not just that you can’t yet find a good movie about American rivalry with China on Netflix or Apple TV+. Outside of “3 Body Problem” and some historical documentaries, it’s hard to find anything new about China at all.

Just as striking is that we all know the reason — and know how craven it is. Simply put, the stuff we watch these days is overwhelmingly produced by large corporations far too dependent on China, in one form or another, to risk offending its audiences or its leaders by even broaching the subject.

This isn’t exactly news. As far back as 2020, PEN America published a backward-looking report on the subject called “Made in Hollywood, Censored by Beijing,” and in 2022 Erich Schwartzel published “Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy.” Some of the most conspicuous instances of capitulation have become,66br Melhores Slots no Brasil if often small-stakes, nevertheless notorious: a Taiwanese flag on Tom Cruise’s jacket was removed from a trailer for “Top Gun: Maverick”; the Chinese villains in the 2012 remake of “Red Dawn” became North Korean instead. Even the NBA has been forced to bend the knee to the Chinese government, and conflict over China coverage reportedly helped end Jon Stewart’s show on Apple TV+.

From the moment Eric Adams took office on New Year’s Eve 2021, he promised to be a mayor such as New Yorkers had never seen.

Mr. Doder, who was known for his scoops, was reporting for The Post in February 1984 when he noticed hundreds of lights blazing at the Soviet Defense Ministry in Moscow. He surmised that the Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, had died. United States officials, dismissing the suggestion, said that Mr. Doder was “smoking pot,” as he and Ms. Branson wrote in a 2021 memoir, “The Inconvenient Journalist.”

But even without these constraints, how much of a reckoning should we expect? As a streaming executive might tell you, Mandarin is forbidding, and China’s social mores foreign, and Americans are famously somewhat solipsistic in their tastes and culture. As many have lamented in recent years, the conditions of production in Hollywood also leave a lot to be desired these days, with what looked like a streaming gold rush drying up quite substantially. The new, grim horizon is lowest-common-denominator streaming content designed for falling asleep to. The nature of the conflict is different, too, with Americans dependent on China for our phones, pharmaceuticals and drones (to name just a few supply chains that bind the countries together).

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