WHY IS CHINA SO *sob* MEAN?!?

China continued to hang on to its reputation as the world's biggest meanie face by banning outright all imported movies that feature actors interacting with animated characters. Besides being a shocking display of good taste, this move is also sweeping, hard to understand, and sudden: it's nice to see the old China back. I was sick of the new WTO-joining, gladhanding, market-opening China anyways.

China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has been worried about the prevalence of foreign produced animation on TV, and has been trying to push for more locally-produced animation and this move was seen as a way to clear more airtime for local product. However, as some industry analysts point out, there actually needs to be local product before you can clear airtime. Many stations will suddenly have to scramble to fill their schedules.

The State Administration says that mixing CGI characters and 2-D animated characters with live action would endanger "the broadcast order of homemade animation and mislead their development."


So now more SPACE JAM, no more  COOL WORLD, no more THE ADVENTURES OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE. Ha ha ha ha ha! Yaaay!

Wait...no more LORD OF THE RINGS, no more STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH, no more KING KONG.

Oh...oops.