Chinese Soft Power and Media Discussion and Updates

styx

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i've been in china for two weeks for tourism. This is what i like to tell to america and trump.

Beneath the silent hills of Xi’an, in the bowels of the earth, the stone army of the First Emperor awakens. A thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand warriors carved from rock rise from their millennia-old tombs, their hollow eyes filled with eternal resolve. Each face is unique, each armor etched with imperial care. Not an army of statues, but a petrified nation ready to resume its interrupted march.
As they rise, the ground trembles, as if the memory of the world itself were shaking. Spears clang against shields, cavalry regroups with deep metallic echoes, and the sky darkens as the past marches against the present. They do not speak, they do not shout — they advance with the inevitable calm of ancient order reclaiming what is rightfully its own.
And there, beyond the walls of mud and fire, writhes the American ogre — a grotesque colossus of plastic and commercial jingles — plunged into the boiling mercury rivers that flow through the heart of the imperial mausoleum. Once arrogant, now he writhes, dissolving in toxic bubbles and alchemical vapors. His jaws still chew empty words of freedom, but no one listens anymore. The mercury burns his flesh, and what remains of him merges with the very poison he spread across the world.
The army marches on — the past is once again present. Not for revenge, but to remind us that beneath every fallen empire, a civilization waits to rise. In silence. In stone. With eyes that never stopped watching.
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Wangxi

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Interesting video by Nathan Rich, one of the most prominent defenders of China on the internet. He discusses, among other things, the challenges China faces in communicating with the outside world. I believe this is closely related to its soft power strategy.

 

manqiangrexue

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I'm starting to feel the extended effects of hard power translating into what some may call soft power.

I'm trying to install my new internet equipment today so I call xfinity. The tech support was Indian. As everyone here is aware, we don't like them very much and they don't like us very much. This dude starts chatting and says he notices the name on my account, asking if I'm Chinese. Obviously, with a name like mine. Then he asks if I speak Mandarin. Yes, and he's like, "That's so cool!" Then he asks how he can learn Mandarin (which he claims can 4x your pay as an xfinity customer service rep) so I'm like, go download Rosetta Stone. He actually asks me to spell it and starts writing it down. Every few sentences, I have to remind him to keep going to setting up my service and this isn't Chat Roulette. He keeps going on about how he'd love to visit China because China has the best tech and he appreciates what China is doing for the world but he doesn't have the money yet for tourism. My wife is silently mouthing to me, "WTF are you talking about? Get internet now." Took like 45 minutes for a call that should have only taken 15 cus he can't shut up raving about China.
 

ficker22

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I'm starting to feel the extended effects of hard power translating into what some may call soft power.

I'm trying to install my new internet equipment today so I call xfinity. The tech support was Indian. As everyone here is aware, we don't like them very much and they don't like us very much. This dude starts chatting and says he notices the name on my account, asking if I'm Chinese. Obviously, with a name like mine. Then he asks if I speak Mandarin. Yes, and he's like, "That's so cool!" Then he asks how he can learn Mandarin (which he claims can 4x your pay as an xfinity customer service rep) so I'm like, go download Rosetta Stone. He actually asks me to spell it and starts writing it down. Every few sentences, I have to remind him to keep going to setting up my service and this isn't Chat Roulette. He keeps going on about how he'd love to visit China because China has the best tech and he appreciates what China is doing for the world but he doesn't have the money yet for tourism. My wife is silently mouthing to me, "WTF are you talking about? Get internet now." Took like 45 minutes for a call that should have only taken 15 cus he can't shut up raving about China.
Good for him I guess.
 

han1289

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the whole world is cheering China for standing up against trump and trading tariffs blow for blow. why? because China is the only country with the hard fundamentals to do so. this is something most people in the west have begrudgingly acknowledged over the last couple of months.
 

Randomuser

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the whole world is cheering China for standing up against trump and trading tariffs blow for blow. why? because China is the only country with the hard fundamentals to do so. this is something most people in the west have begrudgingly acknowledged over the last couple of months.
So basically soft power comes only coz unlike everyone else, China has real hard power.
 

Wrought

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RFA is shutting down, and their director is complaining about it in NYT.

On March 15, RFA’s parent agency, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, notified us that the $60 million grant that funded our entire operation was canceled and we would no longer receive our congressionally appropriated funds. Since then, RFA has been forced to sever contracts with almost all of our 463 on-the-ground stringers and furlough more than three-quarters of our 391 full-time staff members. Our studios are empty, and news production is minimal. Entire services in some languages have gone dark. Layoffs are imminent.

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