Like HRW_14’s comment [1] and yours it’s quite staggering all the investments China-based gaming companies own or own stakes in such as Tencent [2], let alone your GitHub example. What also concerns me is a similar relationship playing out in Hollywood with China-based corporates buying stakes in American film studios and movie theaters in the US [3]. Even before this large amount of Chinese money flowing into the industry, there was still a competition among studios to insure no content could accurately portray news in China such as the Uyghur Genocide or even portray China or a Chinese company as a villain [4]. Fortunately some filmmakers have fought back against calls to censor or change their films to appease the CCP or Chinese audiences [5] [6] but as you stated I imagine it would be near impossible for an indie filmmaker to distribute through a major studio or theater chain without making such changes without a lot of clout. Scary times for free expression or even reporting news and the truth about ongoing genocides accurately.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29984784 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent#Foreign_gaming_investm... [3] https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/09/how-holl... [4] https://pen.org/report/made-in-hollywood-censored-by-beijing... [5] https://www.indiewire.com/2020/01/sony-tarantino-edit-hollyw... [6] https://deadline.com/video/judd-apatow-hollywood-censorship-...