All these gnashing of teeth and assumptions are wasted when reality and history should have already taught you one basic fact that RACE, CULTURE play the most significant part as to why CHINA AND THE WEST or more precisely the West, led by the U.S. can never accept China regardless of proficiency in English or whatever psychological mumbo jumbo you like to assert (absent any conclusive data) that if China’s media only play the same jedi mind trick like the west then all (western led world which is not the majority of the world) these negative views would have been negated.
Ask Japan how's their Plaza accord taste like. Wasn't Japan a DEMOCRACY? And a U.S. vassal state? If the answers to my sarcastic questions are YES then that fact should have already given you some clues. Was the rise of Japan as a technological power helped us Asians in the eyes of the west especially in America, among red blooded Americans? Did their racist joke stopped? The views on overall Japanese and Asians became positive? Perhaps you ought to ask the family of the Chinese American (Vincent Chin) who was killed back at the height of U.S. Japan trade issues, when he was mistaken to be Japanese so those two "misunderstood" Americans beat the man senselessly and for their crimes were sentenced with a harsh penalty of: "At the killers’ trial, the men each received a $3,000 fine and zero prison time."
If your thesis was remotely even correct then the spate of violence against Asian Americans or Asians in in western western wouldn't be this prevalent or even remotely acceptable. After all, studies after studies in America, Canada shows that as an ethnic population our group is seen as one of the top most successful in academics, business, and the top earners in society whites included. But the perception of perpetual foreigner couldn't be dissolved in the eyes and hearts of the Anglo-Saxon people. So spare us the lecture of China must do this or do that nonsensensical b.s. about if only China was good at media trolling or how to frame the narrative then China would be better understood.
Western civilization based on my reading of their history from the Greeks, Roman, British and Western Eurpean history they only respect POWER AND HARD POWER the rest are just pure f..ng window dressing. If you don't believe me just try to visit any of American military forums and read what they say about China. They think it's a joke militarily or how they talk about using nukes casually like popping gum or something. Now compared that to the attitude of many here, myself included, despite my seething anger towards their arrogance I don't talk or would suggest nuking any western countries for shits and giggle or in their words: to teach them a lesson.