CCP’s crackdown no match for HollywoodBloombergAs Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) government looks to tame China’s celebrities, the popularity of a new Universal Studios theme park in Beijing shows Hollywood’s enduring soft power among the nation’s 1.4 billion people. Fliggy (飛豬), an online travel site operated by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (阿里巴巴), last week apologized for overselling the 500 yuan Universal Express Pass that lets visitor skip lines. Visitors walk to the entrance of Universal Studios Beijing on its official opening day yesterday. “Universal Beijing Resort is popular with the Chinese because there is part of the global culture that the Chinese thirst for,” Ni said. Universal Beijing Resort did not respond to a question on how it would deal with China’s requests.

Source: Taipei Times September 20, 2021 15:56 UTC