China has historically been pretty bad at doing that kind of thing so I'm not optimistic about prospects of something like this. What is more promising though is that these anti-Chinese media pieces are getting further and further divorced from reality. So as more people are exposed to what China actually is like, the propaganda loses its effect. Places like Central and Southeast Asia is already very exposed to Chinese representation so that propaganda was never very successful to begin with.
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That's because China does have an agency for exposing western propaganda, it's called ByteDance
Which is beneficial for China, but they (The Iranians, Indians and all other south borne people) are still in their we worship others phase. They will never succeed themselves will this cuckholdry.
AssassinsMace
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Sounds like Western auto companies getting their foreign subsidiaries to complain.
In Iran, Apple iPhones were banned from February 2023 to October 2024. There was significant unrest in Iran due to Apple being banned, which led to the iPhones being unbanned.
However, Apple has no actual business in Iran; in 2017, Apple banned Iranian apps and banned Iranian IPs from the AppStore, there is no authorized iPhone dealer in the country, and there are no Apple employees in Iran. Iranians are officially discriminated against by Apple. They must use VPNs to access even the AppStore. All iPhones in Iran are either used or smuggled.
Despite these severe restrictions - both a domestic ban and vendor side sanctions - the iPhone market share in Iran has always hovered around 10%. This was claimed by the video, but verified here:
Ayatollah Khamenei himself called for the ban of Apple iPhones. He did so via Twitter - posted from an iPhone.
I remember when Drew was getting so much praise being anti China. Unfortunately he thought it was a good idea to go into other areas which would have more pushback like Israel. Then he started getting into fights with guys like Andrew Tate. Now almost everyone hates him.
That's the fate of China watchers these days.
When you look at English media, it is natural that the US/Western ideals are amplified. In SEA, the Chinese influence networks are old, hundreds of years, they don’t work in the same way.
supercat
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Article from The Economist - safe to ignore.
Such gaslighting by Trump means that a US attack is imminent. It seems that the Trump regime isn't really worried about Iran's nuclear weapons. They want regime change instead.
Go ahead. Make America's auto industry a dinosaur!
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
I love how the West freely thinks it has the right to deny their advanced technologies from China but somehow think China is suppose to give them unrestricted access to its rare earth supplies like it was a crime if they don't. And lets not forget rare earths was on the US dual-use ban list of what China can't buy from the US going back a few decades.
Israel has it own reputation of being their own technological power. Now I don't think that's the case. Why did Israel go running to the US to complain China put them on their ban list after their actions in the Gaza genocide? They couldn't get components from China's Silicon Valley, Shenzhen. They can make them on their own. It's not like they couldn't pass the bill onto the American taxpayer.
Why didn't China pull this card out earlier when the West was chest-thumping over other high tech bans they were imposing on China? Instead of putting the West in their place, they let them think how omnipotent and independent they were acting arrogant in the world. That's creates a whole set of dangers for China that the US might trip into. Because the Chinese didn't pull this card out earlier, look at how much stuff could have been avoided. Now some Americans are talking about what's "mutually beneficial" for both countries because of the dependency on Chinese rare earths. The Republicans are not because they still stupidly are hanging onto their beliefs in America being indispensable and exceptional. And that's because the Chinese let them. All because of what? You want to come across as civilized in this world while the West is trying to do the opposite to China? Get off your high horse.
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