Sometimes Hollywood Does NOT Bend to the CCP

It looked in 2019 as if the movie Top Gun: Maverick would bend to the will of the Chinese Communist Party:

There’s a new Top Gun movie coming out. And Maverick is wearing the same leather jacket – only this time it’s Communist Party of China-approved, so the Japanese and Taiwanese flag patches are gone (screenshot on right is from the new trailer)… pic.twitter.com/gUxFNFNUKX
— Mark MacKinnon (@markmackinnon) July 19, 2019

But, when Top Gun: Maverick got released three years later, the Japanese and Taiwanese flags had returned to Maverick’s leather jacket:

It might just be a middle finger to China. https://t.co/RqH9BQFFnm
— VICE (@VICE) May 27, 2022