You link proves my point.
China building infrastructure, providing super affordable loans, waiving loans, and transferring technology are forms of payment, which is a form of hard power.
You watch, amazon, aliexpresss examples are awful examples.
As an example.
You boss pays you money to work. That is hard power. You would not work if they stopped paying. You are not attracted to work. You go for the money.
You volunteer for free to plant trees because your favorite celebrity supports the cause. That is soft power. You are not motivated by any coercion or payment. You go willingly out of attraction to your celebrity.
And it's working like super well for them.
Do the Chinese hate Americans collectively or are they pretty apathetic towards them? - A Rational View of China
The Chinese are being attacked, killed, scapegoated, racially profiled, discriminated against, left and right by (especially white) Americans...yet Chinese people still have a positive view of Americans.
HK rioters were brainwashed enough to hold pro British flags and many even migrated to the UK, where they are surprised to be treated like shit just like in America.
These people have their minds poisoned by western soft power/psychological warfare. That is why they have such positive views of these western criminals. Do you get it?
Do you think the average naive/ignorant Chinese would be so nice to a white American if they knew how much these white bastards hated their guts, exploited them, abused them, disrespect them, cucked them (if they were men), pump and dump them (if they are women), and spread racist lies about them?
Do you think they would like them if they knew that these "wonderful white Americans" endlessly spread lies about them and create anti Asian hate speech disguised as entertainment (Asian men are portrayed dis proportionally as ugly, homosexuals, losers, nerds, etc).
Do you think the average Chinese family would want their young daughter to be tutored by a Caucasian American child rapist/ esl "teacher" (white men as the biggest group of child rapists in SEA and probably EA too)
The Chinese (and Asians in general) are sitting ducks because they are hopelessly naive/ignorant about white people. They are hopelessly naive/ignorant because white people wage total psychological warfare AND the Chinese are totally oblivious to how powerful and dangerous psychological warfare is.
People like you (who I assume means well) keep them ignorant by pretending Western soft power/psychological warfare has no or just limited effect.
Support your claim with sources.
You're just repeating the same debunked argument from assassinsmace.
As an analogy, do you understand if someone destroys the reputation of your business through a smear campaign that even if your business survives, it has been harmed greatly because you've lost lots of good will, business partners, customers, etc?
I can't understand why this is so hard for you and many others to understand. I heard the same flawed argument over the HK rioters and Xinjiang. They said ", see! soft power/psychological warfare doesn't matter. We still control HK/Xinjiang."
Ok, but do you not understand they just spent a few million dollars to waste (some estimate) multi billions of dollars and create decades of animosity amongst maybe several hundreds of thousands to millions of people that may be engage in terrorism in the future?
How is that a win? In HK, your enemy used say $1 to create $2000 worth of problems for you and you celebrate this as a "victory"?
I constantly see this incredibly flawed understanding that claims if some soft power/psychological warfare attack fails to achieve 100% total victory, they will claim ", I told you soft power/psychological warfare is useless".
You are still making the very similar mistakes to the CPC. The CPC needs to understand that it's the hedonistic elements that build great soft power. That's why the West tries to paint itself as some pleasure utopia. I'm not saying China should do that because the costs are too great to become a hedonist culture, but the attraction of the west is largely hedonistic: sex, beauty, fun, freedom, free press, religious freedom, free speech, rags to riches myth, convenient technology, material things/consumerism, individualism, etc. A lot of this stuff is false promises, of course. CPC saying ", we are good at infrastructure and orderly discipline" isn't sexy to the average person. It's like diets. People know they should eat vegetables, but they really want to eat cookies, ice cream, and chips.
