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Dunno. Just some random and wild ideas, but I think there are some decent ideas in there that should be looked into and refined further.
Feels like we(mainland china) are isolated internet wise and are not using our full power for china's benefit.. I mean it could really improve china's image and tell chinas story to the whole world for real, and they cannot call all 1.4 billiom wumao or ignore us all, otherwise they will no longer be able to pretend or say shit like "we love Chinese people, we just hate the gov" like they lie and pretend right now. Isolating ourselves from greater internet and social media only helps reinforce such negative and incorrect stereotypes and assumptions.
Isolation hardly ever ends well, same as like in the pre CPC, Qing dynasty days. China and Chinese should mingle with the world and be able to debate and win vs the best the world has to offer. This would also make Chinese much more worldly, and imo would also make the world a better place, so it's not just for chinas benefit/interests but for the whole world. China just needs to find a good balance for censorship vs freedom to post and shit talk. Imo just ban the outright harmful lies, like anti science lies, child pron, religious cults and all things like that which obviously will/does hurt the people and also the countrys long term interests.
All the above just shows you how far behind china is in this aspect when even india can be said to stronger at controlling and shaping international public narrative and emotions, or at least the west. I guess since democracies need to all shit talk and control narrative much better, since they all fight and argue and manipulate the public in the open due to their politically system, unlike china where all the political games is done behind closed doors and doesnt involve shaping or controlling public opinion. Of course china still controls and shapes public opinion, but it is all one sided and the gov and elites are always united, unlike liberal democracies who are forged in the fires of battle and thus are far more experienced and adept at such things. No, I'm not arguing in favor of liberal democracies, just being a realist and pointing out one benefit from the hundreds of negatives overall.
Another idea. China could and should(?) also make civilians an offer(to the more/most stubborn ones that refuse to go SafeZone instantly or early) that china will rebuild the houses or whatever if they are homeless, and will even offer them to live in mainland if they want immediately, and maybe even give them free and permanent housing. Divide and conquer. Offer 20,000 to everyone who takes the offer, along with the normal guarantees of everything else normal Chinese receive, like basic shelter, food, education, clothing, health care, etc etc. All taken care of. Of course before offering china should do all the math and cost/benefit ratio and see if it's worth it, but I think it will be. I mean one soldiers death is already massive cost(training and lost equipment, along with morale), and if you can get all civilians to leave to safe zone which allows china to just flatten without worry, then imo that is worth far far more. Even offer 1000, or give them guaranteed housing on mainland, I bet most of them will take it. Especially the younger kids who ate struggling to afford house in developed countries or urban cities. China can save this offer for later even, like do the safe zone offer first and majority should leave already since they vslue their lives, but china can also save this offer as 11th hour offer to get the last few remaining fence sitters outta there. And then after that flatten everything, they've had their chance and even the best offer already. Only the most hardcore anti china fighters will be left, no need to feel sorry for them.
So yeah. What I've learnt from this war is that the narrative and information war is most important and will decide morale on both sides, and also will raise or lower the cost for various strategies and tactics. With good propaganda and controlling the narrative, you can make them divided and surrender faster, get more leverage for negitiations, lessen resistance from both Taiwan/Ukraine, and from adversarial countriees(like sanctions, sending weapons, even sending foreign fighters).. you can even get away with flattening everything including civilians (like in middle east or Asia) or even dumping agent orange and land mining the whole country(Laos), sanctioning and blockading it for years(Cuba/Nk) and even can get away with real genocide like in Yemen. Just need to up your game like usas.
Everyone says Russia's propaganda and interference game is top notch, like from kgb days to now, even getting trump elected and dividing usa, but imo that is bs. That is usas own propaganda making you beleive Russia is stronger than it is and usa is weaker than it is when in reality usa dominates. Usa can divide, meddle, even bug and overthrow allied countries govs of leaders and get away with it. Now that is power. Russia's own people are all aware of Russia's propaganda tactics and are skeptics, compare with usa who's people truly buy that shit 100% and beleive there's no domestic propaganda by the gov, and there's no connection between gov and private media etc.
Of course it's a dual edged sword and makes their own people idiots and ignorant, especially of china, but just the fact that the elites in power can do all that shows how far and deep their propaganda game goes.
China's needs to quickly learn and emulate all the best/good parts, while rejecting the bad parts (like making our own people dumb and ignorant on world affairs and our adversaries).
Domestically china doesn't need to worry or copy usas propaganda because china can just censor and do positive truthful propaganda, so no need to rely on negative lies, which usa does to it's own population to justify it's acts agaisnt other countries.
Usa needs to keep their population ignorant and dumb, in order to make it easier to do anti china propaganda. Because if they were dmatt and educated, they would know all the anti china propaganda is bs, and it would make their propaganda and controlling the narrative much harder to do.
Lastly, while I do say that propaganda game is very important, of course in the end numbers and hard power is the most important. But if that was the only thing china cared about, china could take Taiwan tomorrow already. That's why I'm only focusing on these aspects, because that's what will affect china's decision to attack or not in the first place, along with what tactics and strategy will be used good propaganda game will maximise your strategic and tactical options while minimizing your enemies. Good propaganda game will also limit the amount of damage you take from third parties/world, and limit the help your enemy will receive also. All in all it's good and helps in literally every aspect of war.
Congrats if you read it all. You are a man of men, hero of heroes, dominator of dominators. Here, have a cookie. You deserved it.
/Rant
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