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CNA reports MHA comments ...
Mr Branson is entitled to his opinions,

These opinions may be widely held in the UK, but we do not accept that Mr Branson or others in the West are entitled to impose their values on other societies. Nor do we believe that a country that prosecuted two wars in China in the 19th century to force the Chinese to accept opium imports has any moral right to lecture Asians on drugs.
 

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Singapore broadcaster CNA: "but at what cost"

You do realise that Singapore broadsheets don't really report? They barely have any reporters on staff.
What they do is just regurgitate news feeds - In this case, from Reuters (it's in the tag line)

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What can China do to make their pov better carried? f.o.c feeds? less stiffly written editorials?
 

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McCarthyism is back. And you wouldn't be safe even if you were not living in the US.
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Hardly a surprise, remember how Meng got nabbed when transferring form Canadian airport, If they could arrest foreign nationals for setting foot in an ally country for 3 seconds, there's nothing they cannot do to their own citizen abroad.
 

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You do realise that Singapore broadsheets don't really report? They barely have any reporters on staff.
What they do is just regurgitate news feeds - In this case, from Reuters (it's in the tag line)

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What can China do to make their pov better carried? f.o.c feeds? less stiffly written editorials?
You'll have to replace the whole media landscape with something new. It's a bit like you can't beat them in making ICE cars because they are too entrenched, but with EVs everyone now start from the same starting line and you have a chance for overtake.

Media is a weapon they control and there's nothing you can do to turn that into your weapon because why would they let you.

Well I say nothing but actually there is one thing: you need a Sputnik Moment - something so self evident that no spin can cover it up. Once it happens then people will start questioning the conventional narrative. When Sputnik was going beep beep beep no amount of trash talking USSR was a backwards country could cover up the fact that the world sleeps under a Soviet moon. Similarly in 10 years time if a Chinese person steps onto the moon while NASA is still not able to replicate 1969 then that would be such a moment.

You can actually see this happens sometime already on small scale. When Fujian was launched all the news reporting it was suddenly very straight and matter of fact. There's no "at what cost" or mistranslating 头破血流 or anything like that. They just reported all the facts including those slogans on the covers and what they meant. That 80,000 tons of diplomacy is unfortunately the only language they understand.
 
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