It ' s more than that . It ' s about shutting down debate and discussion by shaming instead of just arguing against people . The left and I wholeheartedly include myself in this generalisation has followed this policy for decades now , and the fruits of it are just being seen in Trump , Brexit , and the wave of rightwing extremism across the world . It doesn ' t do any of us any good . I think Yeoh is amazing and frankly don ' t know enough about the Chinese market to know whether anything anyone is saying is plausible . My gut tells me it ' s not , but guts are unreliable from a position of almost complete ignorance . But I don ' t care all that much even if it is true . So we have some pandering to the Chinese rather than just exclusive pandering to the white American middle classes ? Big whoop .