Today’s entertainment news features an absolute gem of political hypocrisy: Vietnam’s one party ‘Communist’ state has banned the animated kids’ movie Abominable, and the Western media are heralding the decision, implying that Vietnam are standing up to China’s censorious one party ‘Communist’ state. This is perhaps the dumbest employment of double standards I’ve encountered in years of reporting on the politics of popular culture.
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SpyCulture.com is written and produced by Tom Secker.
Tom is a British-based journalist, author, and podcaster. His specialities include the security services, Hollywood, propaganda, censorship and the history of terrorism. Tom’s writing and research has appeared in The Mirror, The Express, Russia Today, Salon, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Independent, Harpers, Insurge Intelligence, Shadowproof, Gli Occhi Della Guerra, TechDirt and elsewhere.
Tom lives in Yorkshire and is a proud Northerner. His favourite spy is Eddie Chapman a.k.a. Agent Zigzag. He may or may not sleep with a gun under his pillow.