Hollywood: critical and unconform: as long as the financial interests are met...
It's a (stupid) movie, nothing more. People are way too appeasing against China. Smells like self-censorship.
In the next US Civil War movie they substitute the fractions through North and South Korea, so the Americans are not po'd.
And in the next WW2 movie they change the Germans to Iraqis - hey Germany's a big film market, too...