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Tom Cruise Puts His Money Where His Mouth is by standing up to the Chinese Communist Party by Supporting Taiwan

Can the movie star's bravery inspire other American institutions to start valuing people over profits as well?

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May 29, 2022
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Six months before Covid-19 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Tom Cruise released the trailer for Top Gun: Maverick1. Careful observers noted that a patch depicting the Taiwanese flag on Maverick’s jacket had been replaced. It turns out that Paramount, flush with cash from Chinese financiers, used CGI to replace Maverick’s 63-4 cruise patch to…

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