Missed opportunity for him to just walk past her and shake hands with the drinks serving lady
Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis
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Not sure why some members are calling the military exercises are a win because it's simply "bigger" than the ones from 1996. China's weak response to Pelosi's visit ensures there will be American interference which will then provoke a weak childish response from China's PR. The cycle continues...
China needs to act like a mature power if it is to be taken seriously.
China needs to act like a mature power if it is to be taken seriously.
Unsure if I missed it, but does anyone have a link to the Weibo 'bazooka attack' on Hu Xijin?
Literally nobody thinks that.
However over the past 40 years the CPC has proven itself to be an extraordinarily competent governing entity when compared to other governments around the world. I don't think anyone here would disagree with that.
Is the CPC perfect? Again, nobody thinks that it is. But it sure as hell is the best we've got. A single setback does not overrule the last 40 years of progress.
Indeed, there are vast amount of people, thousands and thousands engaging daily in subtle propaganda. It's not in-your-face. E.g. BBC has a weekly or monthly feel-good article about India etc and so on. So over the years, you change perception of the place. Similarly, on reddit, anything bad about India gets downvoted to hell. It's another matter that India overall is so incompetent with everything that bad news hit the headlines and anyone who visits India complains of city-wide poop smell (recently a German I knew went to Mumbai and was 'never again' ).
But CCP is so scared of western social media, there just arent enough Chinese out there to speak on the medium where rest of the world is talking.
There are just so many ways to engage and fight for the information you wish to project. China seems to have given up that space, CCP is just so focused on managing information internally.
Look at Putin, he did quite a job in furthering democratic and republican divide, just focusing on issues that are relevant to them. His investment in information warfare gave him an edge even in war against Ukraine where mainland Europe was caught with its pants down and had to apply sanctions that hit them back hard, that cost is partly due to his information warfare investment.
I feel in terms of information warfare, CCP are bit outdated dinosaurs. This brick and mortar approach makes sense to millitary and economy, but soft-power doesnt work that way. And then comes the vocabulary used, it's so commie and North Korean at many times... 'revolutionary'... 'national rejuvenation', these words may be fine in Chinese for local audience, but the global tiktok generation is gonna laugh at your face.
In all of this episode, China made gains on the ground, yet it feels bitter, because the lost the plot on the information front.
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Questioning their will to protect national security is. I aren’t confidence they will do anything if Taiwan declares independence.
What happened yesterday is a long, long way off a declaration of independence. I disagree.
There is certainly an open question now I think, whether China will actually go all the way if Taiwan declares independence. But I will say, you cannot be sure, and that in itself will be enough to deter a formal independence, for now. The salami slicing you can guarantee will continue though.
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