Disney epic Mulan is under fire for working with a Chinese security bureau responsible for detaining members of a Muslim minority to shoot the $274 million action film | ErykBagshaw
is under fire for working with a Chinese security bureau responsible for detaining members of a Muslim minority to shoot the $274 million action film.
Both authorities are credited in the film, which is based on a 6th century Chinese folk-tale of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to fight with the Chinese emperor's forces against northern nomadic tribes. It maintains the re-education camps are designed to stamp out violent extremism and has urged foreign powers to stay out of what it claims is a domestic issue.
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