Top Gun betrays Hollywood’s weakness in China
Apparently very little: I saw no indication that Beijing punished Universal for the portrayal, and Atkinson remains incredibly popular in China: On dozens of flights I’ve taken in China, before and after 2011, the most commonplace that I remember seeing on Chinese airline televisions – even more so than Chinese presidents Xi, Hu Jintao or Mao Zedong – is that of Mr. Bean.
