1. This is a different strategy that mirrors US philosophy rather than countering it.
>Right now, China mainly keeps a low profile in rhetoric but achieves big results. It hopes that Europe and other countries will see it as a non-aggressor that is simply too awesome to stop even with America attacking it in full panic mode. This image is meant to convey that China is not only strong enough to defeat attacks without attacking, but it is also more benevolent than the US.
How would you even know this? This is only your guess. I am very suspicious that is their goal. You think China funds billions to state media to enhance soft power by...keeping a low profile? No. That is illogical.
Now your strategy is to bite back as hard as you can
No. That's your guess. My strategy is to destroy their credibility and put them on the back foot so they're on the defense. I don't have to bite them. I just have to bring up extremely inconvenient facts while concern trolling them about transparency and such. For example, regarding the coronavirus, I would bring up Fort Detrick leak, immediate and near by mysterious vaping illness and pneumonias throughout 2019, months before covid 19 in Wuhan to put the focus on them and get people asking lots of uncomfortable questions. I would say a science-based independent transparent investigation needs to carried around these outbreaks. What can they possibly say? If usa rejects, I accuse them of a coverup. If usa accepts, they're in trouble. There's no need to act aggressively to cripple their messaging.
Another example was to instantly associate "China did it" with wmd in Iraq. Everyone knows it and the negative emotion, anger, betrayals it brings up are great to kill America's message. It's easy and can be posed as an innocent inquiry.
I don't understand why this seems so hard for others to grasp. Exposing those lies are easy and high value tasks that destroy their credibility, which is the BASIS of influence.
2. If China adopts the fight-fire-with-fire tactic, it could make the Chinese also blindly hateful of the US and China could lose this advantage.
No. That's your guess, again. You seem to think my strategy is to scream at America. It's not. It's to destroy their veneer of credibility so that their message are ignored, which takes away a lot of their power. The other focus is to expose anti Chinese racism so America loses influence and people go on guard. Many things Americans and Westerners say makes no sense because it's riddled with illogical hypocrisy, but it's not immediately obvious because Chinese media is for a lack of a better word, too nice.
For example who the hell in HK during the 2019 protests would look to America/Britain for "help" if it was WIDELY known that America overthrows democratically elected governments? There is a lot of this sort of fringe information that needs to rise to the level of common sense so that no one even listens when America speaks about democracy or bringing democracy to HK or human rights for Uyghurs or some other bs. I saw something about HK school textbooks whitewash western drug wars in China. I wonder how many of these pro-USA clowns know about the rampant anti Asian racism in the West? I wonder who is hiding this information from them? It's ridiculous. These are the kinds of super low IQ failures that should NEVER EVER happen. I know I am over simplifying the 2019 HK protests
Sheep to the slaughter. That's what China raises yet you think that's a good idea. I'm not telling these sheep to become wolves, but they should at least have some awareness/defense.
Your point about advantage is illogical. China knows much about America due to the English language being used in science, tech, entertainment, etc. This one way advantage will remain whether Chinese love America or not.
Now, you failed to count for the disadvantages. One example is racism. I don't know how much anti Chinese racism is covered in Chinese media but there seem to be a whole lot of gullible Chinese who white worship and get burned. The absolute worst are the armies of geniuses who end up in the West and enrich them while being treated like trash. Do Chinese know their favorite Western luxury goods are owned by people who hate their guts? Or the infestation of sex tourists disguised as esl teachers? How is that an advantage? China complains bitterly about the brain drain...then writes an article about the "beautiful country". Are these people insane?
On a related note about HK...
I bring this up because the socialism/communism was brought down in many nations by the CIA's soft power/psychological warfare. It was the promise of a capitalist mirage of milk and honey that allow them to hijack the grievances of certain elements of the well-off and direct them towards switching towards capitalism. It sounds absurd but perception is reality. China's enemies understand this. China does not. That's why they can spit on a Chinese in the West yet still be welcomed as desirable guests in the China. They know perception is reality. We perceive whites as wonderful people in their controlled media. We DO NOT perceive the abuse so it's not real to us. For people without personal contact, media is literally our only reality - even when it's fake.
Quite frankly, the US style of propaganda is messing their people up; they are looking ignorant and hateful to observers and the highly educated. It's not really something I want to see mirrored in China.
And you won't because that's not what I'm advocating. I have not ever advocating spreading racism, lies, about other nations the way western media does about China. I do advocate for spreading awareness of racism against Chinese/Asians in general.
3. You can make your English media outlet as hip and awesome how do you get it to your target audience in different countries?
even a neutral or mildly friendly country is unlikely to give up their own influence over their people to promote your channel in their media.
Gain control of the head positions of major local news eg board, editor, etc. Control funding. That's what the CIA did starting in the Cold War. It continues today.
Rather, your content, if it makes a rare exciting splash, will be presented to their people, filtered and interpreted by their local outlets. You are still, as you are now, at the mercy of local interpretation.
Irrelevant. This assumes they would go to great lengths to distort the message, which is highly unlikely. There's no motive.
If you are successful, hostile countries can simply ban your content
If they know it's your content. A key lesson of propaganda is to be undetectable/subtle and have a large Overton Window. If, for example, the news outlet attacks the "Chinese regime" and/or praises capitalism occasionally, it becomes much harder to whack a mole.
Secondly, there's a whole world online that the pentagon has begun to weaponize over a decade ago. That should be the focus. The Chinese could bypass lots of the problems you mentioned by creating and controlling large online search engine, discussion, video, chatting, etc platforms. For example, reddit.com/r/geopolitics is a CIA mouthpiece. It's just pro-imperial content, pro-imperial moderation, and vote manipulation all day. Control the platform like the usa does, and most of your job is already done.
Instead, many "undesirables" according to imperialists are getting ghosted, censored, buried by pro imperial moderators who can wipe you out at the click of a button.
