Dragon Day

[4est_4est_Gump]

China, by far the largest single owner of U.S. Treasury debt, has been abandoning Treasury bonds to invest directly in U.S. land, building and businesses. Recently, China entered an agreement with the European Union to swap currencies, forgoing purchases of U.S. dollars -- the world's reserve currency -- to finance transactions. Both of these activities are a consequence of the risk associated with astronomical U.S. debt, almost doubled since President Obama took office. On October 11, China called for the world to be "de-Americanized," its leaders ridiculing Washington over the shutdown impasse.

It is against this backdrop of real events that Dragon Day, a tense thriller set to release November 1st, depicts a Chinese takeover of the U.S. after our government defaults on its debt. Dragon Day Director Jeffrey Travis says, "When I would pitch the film to people, I could rarely finish the logline before the reaction was "Oh my God, that's really going to happen". Our joke was we had to finish the film before it became a documentary.

Given where we are today, that may not be so funny.

 

[Saint Peter]

First your luggage and then your trailer.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Before it was the Japanese, now the Chinese.

Always looking for a bogeyman.

 

[eyer]

Nothing like an opinion piece that immediately begins in blatant error:

China, by far the largest single owner of U.S. Treasury debt...

The Fed is "the largest single owner of U.S. Treasury debt"...

...holding more than $4 trillion of it compared to Communist China's $1+ trillion.

Communist China is, in fact, the largest, single, foreign owner of U.S. Treasury debt.

 

[CandiCame]

That sounded really interesting, but then I watched the trailer and it actually just looks kinda "meh".

http://www.dragondaymovie.com/trailer-3/

It's not even a foreign film. It's anti-Chinese propaganda. It's basically a 'zombie apocolypse' movie but with Asians instead of Zombies. Because that's not insulting at all.