Pandering to Chinese market
It's a thing for sure in the bigger Hollywood films, 2nd biggest movie market soon to be the biggest by most accounts. Plus they only allow 34 foreign movies in a year, so production houses will do alot to get that golden ticket so to speak. I think the worst of it in the film was the talked about chip stealing, card throwing scene imo, it seemed they dragged it out, just to give as much screen time to the diligent and tough Chinese guards to search them like 3 times a piece.
The director Jon Chu while US born, is of Chinese descent and his father is a famous Chinese chef. I don't consider that to be a direct pander, but his only big budget experience was GI Joe 2, another movie that was tooled to maximize overseas profits, and I do think it helped to get them on the list of 34. Another obvious sign is characters given odd emphasis played by people with little to no acting experience usually a pop stars, like Jay Chou a Taiwanese musician. Often times they will be given even more screen time in overseas cuts.