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The on-and-off romance between the U.S. and China's film industries

By Adrian Ma
Published July 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM CDT

No country can come close to the amount of money Americans spend at the box office… until China came along. The U.S. and Chinese film industries have a long history, with shifting power dynamics.

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Adrian Ma
Adrian Ma covers work, money and other "business-ish" for NPR's daily economics podcast The Indicator from Planet Money.
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