>>15707074>Sad though it all was, being out of China is better in the long run.While true, don't count on Cover management to pick up on it.
The Chinese market is big, really big, STUPID big, and everyone is dying to get a foothold in this market.
The Wuling Hongguang, which is a terrible van looking thing, sold 4,549,592 units from 2010 to 2020 according to Wikipedia.
Never heard of it? me neither, but apparently it's annual average sale is higher than other names I've heard of and have seen like Skoda Octavia.
That's all in China.
Honor of Kings is a smartphone LoL clone that's F2P and made $13,384,000,000 since it's release in 2015 according to Wikipedia.
That's stupidly profitable, the most profitable video game world-wide, in fact.
I've never heard of it outside of discussions about china, but it doesn't matter because the Chinese market is stupendously large and getting a de facto monopoly in it makes you royalty.
But what businessmen refuse to accept is that those China successes only work because they operate from China and bend the knee to their more-equal overlords.
You can't serve two masters at once, you can't even go the Disney route of trying to appeal to a western audience with your movie and then cut shit out to make it more appealing to the Chinese market, because even they couldn't get it going.
You're either 100% loyal to the Chinese narrative or you ignore the Chinese market entirely, any in between will satisfy neither one.
