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[fatzergling]

True but really it does say a bit when Japan cannot really shell enough to bring in the big guns for animation as consistently as before but still I don’t see Japanese voice actors being replaced given there niche and appeal but I do see Chinese voice greatly improving to the point where their appeal will broaden to being on a similar level to a Japanese voice actor (I mean from what I saw of recent games, especially honkai impact I see the voice acting quality improve a lot of the past few years since it’s begging). Still this speaks volumes as to how much the Chinese entertainment scene has improved and still have room to greatly improve and expand. This is compared to the stagnation of the Japanese entertainment industry in general that seems to be stagnating as a whole whilst doing little to innovate and really the only selling point these days are their voice actors and past glories attached

Japan as a whole lives on it's past glories.

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Even of their largest electronics companies states this, although not outright. But Japan is not to be underestimated. Japan still owns many legacy IP's and controls many legacy industrial processes, which give it a strong advantage. However, Japan is severely lacking in development of new technologies, and thus depends on IP on their legacy processes.

 

[mishaknive]

Those film techniques are outdated for our 2 second attention spans. From what i can remember, pre-2000 prc film and tv were pretty terrible. They only got better once they started co-productions with taiwan/hk which were influence by the west/free-market techniques rather than communist/state led techniques.

I don't say to abolish private for profit film studio, what i want to say is established state institution to experiment with filmmaking, i mean i'ts kinda like china today when there are private firm and state firm. Also, china doesn't learn or train from soviet when in come to live action film when hundred flower campaign happened. (Before sino soviet split).

A little bit history that people here often overlooked. When hundred flower campaign began, Mao didn't care about live action film (didn't know the reason some say because life action film was very expensive). The chinese government established shanghai animation film studio. The studio then trained under soviet animator with the request from Mao and the soviet agree. The studio then produced award winning animation but people/artist who watched the film think the film was from soviet union. So, beginning in late 50s and early 60s, the studio experiment to make their animation looks more chinese and experimenting animation with different medium (paper, stop motion animation, ink animation). It was huge success that many of their film winning award and at that time, many japanese animator inspired by them. But, the cultural revolution happened, so many of the artist got persecuted and went to the countryside doing manual labor work. After the end of cultural revolution, their artstyle also changed, the artstyle became more and more abstract. But, starting in the 90s, the studio didn't very active again because it's cheaper and bring more money to outsourcing rather than producing. The reason of this is because the government didn't care and put little funding to the studio so the studio doing outsourcing to survive.

The studio is active again and still influencing chinese animator to this day, their recent collection of short film that their release on bilibili (jan. 2023) became hit and some of them winning award. Private for profit animation studio in china take inspiration from them and learn how to produce their animation in different format from shanghai animation film studio. A good example of this is the movie deep sea (深海) where the studio want to try ink animation in the format of 3d in some scene.

 

[supercat]

LMAO - Japan's Minister of Defense doesn't think Japan will lend a hand to Taiwan until the rest of the world does.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1683234486777966593

Not surprisingly, America's tech sanctions lead to increased cooperation between China and Russia in many fields, including quantum technology.

Quantum entanglement: how US-led sanctions are turning Russia’s genius scientists to China for collaboration​

• Cooperation between Russian and Chinese scientists is leading to huge advances in quantum technology
• Putin is proposing a joint effort through BRICS to develop various future technologies

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David P. Goldman's view about the China-US tech competition:

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David P. Goldman: "Viktor Orban is the smartest politician I've ever met. This assessment is frightening":

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This is probably the last time Kissinger could mediate China-US relationship. Carl Zha is worried.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1682928405438943232

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Bollywood viewership exceed Hollywood and there stars well publicized in Mideast and certain other countries. in internet age followers are not much less.

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It is like saying soft power is derived from hard power. while it should be soft power that should influence.
When i posted about Russian director Alexander Sokurov there was link about his School in city of Nalchik. now that city at that time was surrounded by Islamists. so any one want to learn best of Russian cinematography they will have to surround themselves by that culture. This process has decreased the talent pool as people who attracted to movie making profession may want to study in west instead and the product they produce will be more for local taste what is created. so it is by choice.

Bollywood is small and not all that important. A single Chinese movie makes almost the same money as all of Indian Bollywood combined.

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Although cinemas were closed in January, India’s total box office revenue reached $1.28BN (Rs106BN) in 2022, according to a report from

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and GroupM, the second biggest year on record and just a shade off the $1.31BN (Rs109.5BN) achieved in the record-breaking year of 2019.

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This is to be expected, as unfortunately, few people are interested in the thoughts, hopes and dreams of Indians for their own sake. Look at how the west only talks about India in comparison to China for proof. They don't care about India, they only care about how India can counter China. If it wasn't for China, they wouldn't care about India.

 

[Hitomi]

More anti-immigrants and social conservatives come to power in EU.

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Another Meloni style bait and switch?

 

[Deleted member 23272]

I'm starting to think that this Witchhunter12 guy is a concern troll, as his username suggests

Who knew all it took for this forum's opinion to go from China needs to work on its soft power to China is a secret cultural superpower, was for me to well, express an opinion that even has its own thread and that most ardent Chinese patriots can admit to.

 

[Rank Amateur]

Bro from what I heard from the Indians, it was the Russian who suckered them...lol the name INS Vikramaditya comes to mind and the Mig- 29k.

So the Indians claim. But good luck getting a carrier anywhere else for a better price than they paid for INS Vikramaditya. The Indians spent like 50% more building the INS Vikrant with Indian salaries.

But with the Vikrant, the Indians gained invaluable experience building a CV from scratch -- even if many crucial subsystems and components were imported -- plus the substantial amounts spent on hull construction and other indigenous inputs stayed home and buoyed the Indian economy. With the Vikramaditya, all that money spent on the hull purchase and its conversion and fitting out left India and buoyed the Russian economy, and the Indians gained no building experience at all.

So even assuming the Vikrant cost 50 percent more, I'd say it was worth it. But according to the cost figures I found, the Vikrant cost only 36 percent more (Vikrant $3.2B, Vikramaditya $2.35B), so it was worth it even more.

 

[ansy1968]

I'm pretty sure that the diaspora is much more Christian than mainland China.

Chinese Americans: 31% Christian.

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Taiwan: 4% Christian.

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Hong Kong: 16% Christian

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Mainland China: 2% Christian

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I used to be one of them, being an atheist and part buddhist help me broaden my horizon.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

I used to be one of them, being an atheist and part buddhist help me broaden my horizon.

nothing against Christians, but its just a simple fact that there is a lower % of Chinese Christians in mainland than outside of it.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Who knew all it took for this forum's opinion to go from China needs to work on its soft power to China is a secret cultural superpower, was for me to well, express an opinion that even has its own thread and that most ardent Chinese patriots can admit to.

that's because the expectations are always much higher for China.

the consensus is that soft power is the ability to get people to do things you want them to do that they wouldn't have otherwise done, without having to force them to do so with military or economic means... which is the original definition as stated by the man who invented the entire concept, Joseph Nye.

Now the question is, there are 2 measures of cultural soft power: 1. making money through cultural exports and 2. making people do things without paying them or holding them at gunpoint that they wouldn't have otherwise done.

Polls indicate that the 1st or 2nd most hated country in China is Japan depending on year. This has been consistent for 20+ years. Toyotas and their dealerships get burnt in anti Japanese riots. Japanese 'soft power' has been absolutely ineffective at making Chinese behave according to Japanese interests.

Market data also indicates that even globally, Japanese games don't make a fraction the money that just a single Genshin Impact does, and outside games, Japanese software is nonexistent. Japanese doesn't have websites or apps with even a fraction of the reach of TikTok alone.

So if Japanese cultural exports are 1. ineffective at making others behave according to Japanese interests and 2. ineffective at making money then wtf are they good for?

In contrast, you know who has the best soft power, as originally defined? Ukraine.

Ukraine has no movie, music, or TV industry that people outside CIS care about. Zelensky was an actor yet his movie was tiny by global standards.

Yet Ukraine is able to force much richer and bigger countries to behave according to Ukrainian interests, without either paying them or having the military ability to coerce them.

I call that soft power.