Edited sentence: " The producers and creators of Red Dawn wishes to capitalize on the current spate of sinophobia."Americans have now begun to fear that China may be their true peer, able to match them both economically and militarily.Because of China's rise as an economic power, America's belief in their decline, China's ownership of a large portion of America's national debt, and the Western news media's tendency to demonize China, fear and hatred of China and the Chinese people have increased in the United States.Even though this label fits the China of today poorly (if at all), the descriptor sticks in the minds of many.It can be easy to pass such fears off as uneducated or irrational if it were not for how frequently these same ideas can be heard from those holding Congressional seats, key government appointments, and responsible journalists.It's a short slide over from hating the evil Chinese villains in a film like this to subconsciously or consciously seeing all Chinese as evil villains, and hating them as well.One Chinese-American columnist said, "The action genre tends to be Manichaean — there's good, evil, and little or nothing in between — and archetypal — characters are drawn big, iconic, and cartoony to eliminate anything that might distract from the mayhem.Perhaps most problematic is that China and the Soviet Union have both been, and in some measure still are, communist.The United States has a long history of sinophobia which have resulted in race riots such as the Chinese massacre of 1871 in Los Angeles and racist laws such as the Chinese Exclusion Act.The release of the movie has risen fears among the Asian American community that hate crimes against Asians, particularly Chinese people living in the United States, will increase.Unfortunately, the combination of these factors tends to turn action cinema into a cesspit of ultra-nationalism and, in the case of films where the villains are uniformly of another color, racism.Your catharsis comes from rooting for the pure-hearted heroes and hating on the corrupt, inhuman villains