cosplayers portraying non-Chinese IP characters may be denied entry and that staff will conduct inspections inside the venue to ensure compliance.
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This is fine, doing it makes sense as a means of encouraging Chinese content and styles.
The cosplay ban for non-Chinese characters is absolutely ridiculous and jingoistic behaviour. The same kind of shit as sports banning russia and museums removing russia's name from exhibits of russian works among other things.
Bummer. 
Having observed this for a while now, I'm uncertain whether all these imposed "cancel Japan" decisions at a grassroots level will produce any positive effects if the CPC itself is unwilling to make any substantive governmental responses, aside from diplomatically scolding Japan at the MoFA level, citing the UN Charter and cancelling some random seafood imports. It's been a month since the threat of war by the fascistic Japanese PM and there doesn't seem to have been a real governmental inclination to do anything in response.
This presently just seems to be leading to overzealous low-level government officials trying to show off by (allegedly) tearing away the mic from Japanese performers in China mid-performance and all these "bona fides" demonstrating acts like video game devs cancelling Japanese-themed content expansions, cancelling flights to Japan and (purportedly here) discouraging Japanese media at conventions.
Even though it's all been done in a fairly heavy-handed way, there's nothing wrong with these things per se. The West certainly lost any moral high ground given the far more ridiculous Western censorship and banning of Russian content following the Ukraine escalation in 2022. Still, I don’t see the practical value in trimming down the weeb population or supporting these individual-level restrictions if the government itself isn’t going to leverage the shift in public sentiment for any geopolitical use.
How did this article omit the context for why the Chinese government is doing this???
Is it a decision from the government? It just says the organizers made the decision amid tensions between the two countries
Btw I read a better article earlier that did talk about Japanese prime minister threatening China with a good war, again
How did your comment omit the context you felt the article was lacking???
At the very least I am not making any claim to be a journalist while making useless comments.
Lol. Lmao even.
Aw hell nah
Important things are happening in China.
yea good ok
That's...alotta stuff.