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.
It spends the money to influence Chinese people both in China and overseas. Nothing illogical about that.
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.... truncated quote to save characters
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.
To be frank, the US destroys its own credibility just fine and its media is absolutely vicious about calling out the mistakes of their own government. I don't think it's even necessary to add another voice into the mix and if you do, it shouldn't be a Chinese one for everyone to take the story from "The US is incompetent" to "China's trying to brainwash you!" Everything you said is out there and people can read about it if they like, but it gets drowned out by their mainstream media. We're not talking about telling people something they otherwise couldn't find out in order to educated them; we're talking about booming your outlet louder than their national outlets, otherwise, there's still no novelty to what you're trying to add.
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... truncated for characters
Their own medias point out anti-China racism and they don't even listen; what makes you think they will listen to it coming from a Chinese outlet? Chinese media points out these illogical hypocrisies to the Chinese audience, but you've no way of getting heard over local mainstream media.
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? ... truncated quote to save characters
HK is a mistake long in the making. I don't know how much HK people know or don't know because I've never been there and don't know their media but I feel at this point that it's not a matter of informational education. They will think that what the US is doing is good even if they see live videos of American soldiers gutting women and children in Iraq. The CCP should have acted on HK decades ago (maybe it didn't because it needed HK's role in China's ascent, I don't know) and now there's no easy answer. It's a whole different beast than global outreach.
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.
Mostly from entertainment and actually going there for study or work exchange, etc... but hate clouds knowledge and judgement. The Chinese are more readily willing and able to learn about America when they're not constantly blasted with how evil the country is. It's a delicate balance that you want your citizens to see that this is no friendly country to cozy up to, but also to not blow blood vessels in your brain whenever you hear their name. Americans have lost that; whenever they hear China being mentioned, they don't want to hear anything else except how evil it is and if the article talks about something China has done right, they immediately stop reading within 2 sentences and say it's CCP-funded crap even if it's CNN or something. That is the attitude to avoid if you want to learn and understand your enemy.
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... truncated to save characters
Foreign-worship in China never comes from the belief that those people are friendly towards China; it comes from admiration for their technology and romanticism about their culture/society through entertainment and media. I remember that a while back, Dolce and Gabbana got ruined in China for their "racist?" commercial and the subsequent leak of the owners' hate-filled rage message against the Chinese. This is a good example of correctly using media to inform Chinese citizens. But as I said, there is a fine line to walk between properly informing people and charging them with too much hate for them to learn. It's not perfect the way things are but I see way bigger mistakes out there.
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... truncated to save characters
Are you talking about Chinese media control inside China or globally? I thought we were addressing the later issue because it's quite clear that the Chinese people in the mainland are quite well united by Chinese media.
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.
Spreading awareness is easier said than done; Western outlets themselves describe these racist attacks and don't seem to have much of an effect on their citizens.
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.
This is the funny one. Easier said than done. The US can do it because after WWII, it basically controlled Europe and is ideologically aligned with them. China doesn't have that luxury and its communist tag rings alarm bells everywhere. With that cowbell around its neck threading lightly is a must.
Irrelevant. This assumes they would go to great lengths to distort the message, which is highly unlikely. There's no motive.
They would and they do. The EU was just as alarmed about China as the US was... before Trump screwed up the alliance. If these countries saw red China spreading a message in their countries, they would react. That resistance could be getting softer and softer, though, in the Trump era.
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.
Very expensive, difficult move by you to create and set up media outlet, very easy and cheap for your opponents to ban it when they do find out. With investigative journalism today, your ownership and allegiance will be discovered with your first pro-China article... if it even takes that long.
Secondly, there's a whole world online that the pentagon has begun to weaponize over a decade ago... truncated for characters
not too familiar with this realm since I don't use these platforms but generally, online discussions attract like-minded people. Pro-China people go to ones that laud China and anti-China people go to CIA-funded ones because they are most comfortable there. China certainly has these forums that foreigners can join but their popularity is unknown to me and popularity is key.
Anyway, as you were complaining about the incompetence of the CCP, they were busy delivering the results you wanted to see:
Europe is abandoning Trump on the world stage as it turns away from the US toward China
- Recent polling suggests Europeans are turning away from the US under President Donald Trump's leadership.
- Public opinion toward America has declined in major European countries since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
- Seventy-six percent of Germans in a new poll said their view of America had deteriorated because of the crisis.
- Roughly equal numbers of Germans in the poll favored maintaining close relationships with China and the US in a head-to-head matchup.
- One poll last week found that just 2% of French people trusted Trump to provide world leadership.
- China is exerting growing political, diplomatic, and financial power across Europe.
