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Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham Blast ‘Top Gun’ For Seemingly Pandering To China

Paul Bois

Some in Hollywood are quickly developing a relationship with the authoritarian Chinese government by censoring content created in the United States so that it will pass the communist censors overseas. The latest film to fall victim to this despicable trend appears to be “Top Gun: Maverick” — the sequel to the 1986 blockbuster that first made Tom Cruise a movie star.

After the trailer launched last week, people took notice of the fact that the character’s iconic patch-laden flight jacket had a slight alteration to the original: The Japanese and Taiwanese flags were missing.

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