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“Emergency. Emergency. Everybody to get from street.”
-—The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966 film)
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Could just be the cinema district. Article elsewhere said a number of movies flopped and lost a fortune (despite Top Gun Maverick):
“Blacklight”,”Morbius” and “Moonfall.” The latter cost a bloated $150 million to make and earned just $44 million worldwide.
Other movies weren’t total disasters but underwhelmed, such as the “Fantastic Beasts” movie, “The Secrets of Dumbledore,” the lowest-grossing “Harry Potter”-related movie in the franchise yet, and cost a hefty $200 million to produce.
It can be argued that the lockdowns will kill off the small businesses that defy the CCP concept of government control of all business.
As far back as 2021, there were reports of zealous regional CCP apparatchiks warring on small businesses and Entrepreneural freedom. The reports from a city I have disremembered indicated that street vendors an push cart businesses were assaulted by the CCP zealots.
Having just recently gained the absolute power to control and deposing on TV those in opposition, Xi is implementing the destruction of all business not under CCP domination.
Perkins and Coie in China is not long for this world.
For at least the next year, the people of China are going to feel the boot of CCP oppression on a grand scale
