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Many here are unnecessarily making this a Soft Power vs Economy/Hard Power debate when it shouldn't be the case

These 2 aren't mutually exclusive and you can do both effectively. To improve the PR abilities doesn't mean you're somehow gonna abandon Hard power approach.

PR and global perception matters to the Chinese Govt as well. Why else does CGTN operate in many different languages and has 70 bureaus across the world? Why do Chinese embassies across the world hold cultural programs? Why does Chinese media have so many pages on Western SM like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc? Why does Chinese MFA hold PCs where foreigners ask questions when it can simply ignore their opinions? All this costs Billions of Dollars as well.

Because at the end of the day perception management aka Soft Power is important to achieving global goodwill and results in fewer roadblocks to achieving geopolitical motives.

So when someone says that China should've handled the Peng case better it doesn't mean that the entire legitimacy of CPC is under question or its some CIA conspiracy. China is a big country and shit happens. A woman tennis player being blacked out is a bad look howsoever you want to twist it. Just one smartly crafted police statement would've nipped it in the bud, not exactly a difficult task.

Sleepyjam said:

Sounds more like the DPP

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Who care about the DDP. They are not in a great power competition with the U.S.

Petrolicious88 said:

We are not talking about nuclear disasters.

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Who do you think releases those nuclear waste waters? Water just release by themselves? The western propaganda machine doesn’t care.

Petrolicious88 said:

Who care about the DDP. They are not in a great power competition with the U.S.

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Because they are on the same level as the dysfunctional democratic and the republican party.

Sleepyjam said:

Because they are on the same level as the dysfunctional democratic and the republican party.

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Sleepy, DPP is not part of the international system; not in any form of competition with the US. They can do whatever they want with 24/7 media black out. Let's not even compare the DPP government with those of the U.S. I don't even know where they are on the map.

Kaeshmiri said:

Many here are unnecessarily making this a Soft Power vs Economy/Hard Power debate when it shouldn't be the case

These 2 aren't mutually exclusive and you can do both effectively. To improve the PR abilities doesn't mean you're somehow gonna abandon Hard power approach.

PR and global perception matters to the Chinese Govt as well. Why else does CGTN operate in many different languages and has 70 bureaus across the world? Why do Chinese embassies across the world hold cultural programs? Why does Chinese media have so many pages on Western SM like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc? Why does Chinese MFA hold PCs where foreigners ask questions when it can simply ignore their opinions? All this costs Billions of Dollars as well.

Because at the end of the day perception management aka Soft Power is important to achieving global goodwill and results in fewer roadblocks to achieving geopolitical motives.

So when someone says that China should've handled the Peng case better it doesn't mean that the entire legitimacy of CPC is under question or its some CIA conspiracy. China is a big country and shit happens. A woman tennis player being blacked out is a bad look howsoever you want to twist it. Just one smartly crafted police statement would've nipped it in the bud, not exactly a difficult task.

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I think Soft Power is overrated, US bombs and kills innocent people yet most people don’t really care, it’s the hard power that shapes the world.

Not necessarily a conspiracy but the possibility can not be ruled out. And not really a police matter so why get them involved.

Petrolicious88 said:

Sleepy, DPP is not part of the international system; not in any form of competition with the US. They can do whatever they want with 24/7 media black out. Let's not even compare the DPP government with those of the U.S. I don't even know where they are on the map.

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I don’t care if you don’t know and I don’t need you permission to compare them.

China secretly building what they suspected was a military facility and the UAE gov is unaware. What a shit nonsense lol

escobar said:

China secretly building what they suspected was a military facility and the UAE gov is unaware. What a shit nonsense lol

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Alarmed, the Biden administration warned the Emirati government that a Chinese military presence in its country could threaten ties between the two nations. After rounds of meetings and visits by U.S. officials, construction was recently halted, according to people familiar with the matter.

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That's the "burden" of having a hegemony. You have to defend everywhere while the challenger can attack everywhere and whenever he succeeds (or maybe not), the hegemon will get hurt

In this case, the US stopped the totally "unaware" UAE building this facility. However this still provides some benefits to China as the US keeps alienating its allies in the region by forcing them to make choices that they don't want to

The more you put a leash, the more they will resist (exceptions include the honourary whites)

The China-Russia Consortium (CRC) space weather center was established in Beijing on Tuesday, a move to accelerate the development of meteorological services for international civil aviation and enhance China's international influence in the sector, according to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA).

By cooperating with Russia to take part in international affairs and fulfill international duties, China will raise its international influence in the sector of space weather aviation services, Yu Rucong, deputy director of CMA said.

It is hoped that the two sides will further cooperate in data sharing, product integration and forecast verification to provide more accurate and practical products and services to global civil aviation users, Yu noted.

The center is jointly established and operated by the China Meteorological Administration, the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. It is the first global center approved by the International Civil Aviation Organization in Chinese civil aviation meteorology and also the fourth global space weather center.

Space weather matters for high-tech systems like satellite operation, human health, and especially for aviation safety and communication, positioning and tracking. Meanwhile, the reliability of avionics might be seriously disrupted by space weather.

China's meteorological authorities have initially built the main framework of the national-level space weather operational mechanism with the capacity to monitor the whole process of the solar-terrestrial spatial causal chain, the administration said. The country has the capability to make long-, medium- and short-term forecasts, and the accuracy of space weather prediction is comparable to the international level.

The CMA started space weather tests in the late 1990s. In 2002, the country approved the establishment of the National Space Weather Monitoring and Early Warning Center which was officially put into operation in 2004.

In 2012, the related authorities began preparations for the development of aerospace weather services. China and Russia jointly applied for the regional space weather center in 2018 and the CRC center was approved in 2020.