friend of mine chris fenton and los angeles california he's got a book out right now it's very timely it's called feeding the dragon and sod the trillion dollar dilemma facing hollywood the n.b.a. and american business chris welcome to the kaiser report thanks for having me back i'm a big fan and it's nice to reconnect with you after all these years yeah it's awesome man this pandemic is the best thing ever anyway chris fenton on october 4th 2019 they general manager of the houston rockets tweeted support for protesters and hong kong this resulted in billions of dollars of losses for the n.b.a. which has 500000000 fans and china so tell us about what the n.b.a. story tells us chris yeah well that was actually a very relevant day for b. i actually was at my kid's soccer game when i when i saw the tweet come up on my phone i didn't even know who daryl morey was but i obviously know who the houston rockets are and knew their importance in the u.s. china cultural and commercial exchange and in particular to the sports industry because yao ming one of the most famous basketball players bought time and definitely the most famous ever out of china played for the houston roc

but we are joined by the "trillion dollar dilemma facing hollywood and the nba." the author chris fentonyou for writing the book. tell us what the dilemma is. what dilemma does hollywood face dealing with china? >> it's an interesting one. if you look at the potential of the market for hollywood or any business, it's vast potential. if you look at just the movie business itself, in 2009 there were only 5,000 movie screens. you cut to today there are over 70,000. next year, almost no matter what, the market is going to be the largest in the world and it will come to be so for a long, long time. so the prize to get in that market is massive. if you extrapolate that to the other sort of businesses you can see why the american businesses do have a dilemma that is especially part of the wokeness that has occurred in the last six months which is jeez, we are compromising american values, principles, national security interest. potential i.p. in order to get the access to that the market. now that we are cognizant of it, now that we are self-aware of it, what do we do now? we don't want to just