lol, the only ones "on a high horse" are the ones expecting expecting another country's movie studios to completely change how they make movies to cater to the tastes of a foreign market. clearly Chinese audiences like the polar opposite of American audiences, right down to reveling in stories of American military defeat. do you think US studios are going to make those movies, or that US audiences will watch them?
it doesn't seem to me like the Chinese audience has changed at all. what changed was that studios gave up catering to Chinese audiences because they still weren't seeing the movies - like Abominable, US audiences can tell when a movie has been targeted more to China than the US & China seems to feel these movies still aren't Chinese enough, so nobody sees them. studios should recoup their losses by not making big-budget stinkers in the first place.
firstly: no, Abbott is not right. there is no "invasion" & states do not have sovereignty to supercede the federal govt, which IS enforcing the law.
second, note that NYT quoted the right-wing Ft Worth paper but not the left-leaning Texas Tribune. a mealy-mouthed "what if" is hardly a rebuttal to the racist rhetoric of the right.