As an authoritarian state, the CCP has an interest in filtering out movies with a message it seems „unfavorable“. Years ago, there were massive investments with chinese capital into hollywood. But the chinese thought movies were like any other business and consequently got no return (financially as well as messaging). This failed so horribly that a ban against foreign movie investments was made.
Now, the ccp has quintupled efforts to create „culturally favorable“ movies at home. And Hollywood is still chasing that sweet chinese money like a crack whore without supply. We for some time, we have seen token Chinese characters and movies as a pandering movie to get the Chinese audience. An audience were +80% of revenue remains in china.
So, not only are Hollywood studios culturally naive, they are financially ill advised to put so much effort into a market that provides minimal returns. Box office is all about prestige, only the bean counters in Hollywood actually care about profitability.