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Here's more proof that it's not a "lack" of hard power preventing China from amassing great soft power. It is purely incompetence at soft power paired with certain super counter productive cultural preferences that reduce soft power (humility).

Watch from 47 seconds to the end.

tldr=China gifts a major hospital to Zambia (African nation) but never brags about it. Even Zambians have no idea it is a Chinese gift. This illustrates the insanity of Confucian humility when it comes to amassing soft power.

China has used hard power (money, technology, expertise) to build this hospital. Yet, it gained no soft power because it lacks basic soft power skill (self promotion, marketing, etc). The solution to this problem is not more hard power as I've proven repeatedly. It is to improve the soft power skill level.


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AssassinsMace

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I didn't know Bon Bon head Tim Poole was part Korean. He's an example of what I was talking about how you can tell if someone is universally seen as evil to all because evil can have two contradictory thoughts at a single moment. Yeah he accuses evil China is making American women turn to porn to make money in order to survive. How does he come up with this conclusion? Because that's what he would be doing to Chinese women if he was in a position to do it. Bad where China "is doing it" but not a problem if he and the US were doing that to China. Same act but only a crime depending on who's committing the act and who's the victim of that act. That's how Americans figure out if a crime was committed and they wonder why they're portrayed as racist. Then on top of that how psychotic are you when your conclusion why you're angry that China is doing it without any sort of proof is because that's what he would do...? He's angry at a crime that was only committed in his head.
 

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I didn't know Bon Bon head Tim Poole was part Korean. He's an example of what I was talking about how you can tell if someone is universally seen as evil to all because evil can have two contradictory thoughts at a single moment. Yeah he accuses evil China is making American women turn to porn to make money in order to survive. How does he come up with this conclusion? Because that's what he would be doing to Chinese women if he was in a position to do it. Bad where China "is doing it" but not a problem if he and the US were doing that to China. Same act but only a crime depending on who's committing the act and who's the victim of that act. That's how Americans figure out if a crime was committed and they wonder why they're portrayed as racist. Then on top of that how psychotic are you when your conclusion why you're angry that China is doing it without any sort of proof is because that's what he would do...? He's angry at a crime that was only committed in his head.

He may have been co-opted and/or bought. I remember he and a group of bloggers got invited to a Trump event, and afterward, he had a major expansion of his operation (additional employee, office space, additional channels, etc). And from that point on, he had a significant change in tone also. This is circumstantial, but this what I suspected. I ceased from viewing this output from that point on.
 

Petrolicious88

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The Democrats claim Trump becoming President again will be the end of democracy in the US. That's now more likely than ever now because of Biden's bad performance at the debate. But no chance of Biden dropping out because of ego. Ego over democracy.
It's not Biden, he's not the one making the decisions on re-election. Assume he's mentally inept. Then who's making the decisions for him. His team reached out to Trump and asked for the debate knowing it would hurt his chance of winning.

If the goal is to protect Biden, then why host a debate and put him on TV.

If the goal is to protect the country from Trump, then why not have Biden step aside. You win the election by putting up any other candidate other than Biden or Trump.

So the end game is Trump all along.
 

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It's not Biden, he's not the one making the decisions on re-election. Assume he's mentally inept. Then who's making the decisions for him. His team reached out to Trump and asked for the debate knowing it would hurt his chance of winning.

If the goal is to protect Biden, then why host a debate and put him on TV.

If the goal is to protect the country from Trump, then why not have Biden step aside. You win the election by putting up any other candidate other than Biden or Trump.

So the end game is Trump all along.
As I see it, Biden faction is ready to block Trump from being elected at all. Trump coming up would ruin many foreign policies lines.

Official loss in Ukraine, probably escalation in Israel that would cause the resistance to bomb Israeli infrastructure in earnest and therefore tank Israeli economy to nothing.

Zelensky is quite confident staying online right now, despite Biden flagging. What does he know?

I think Democrat party are coalescing the opposition in Trump, who is a weak candidate that has many moral "failings" and mistakes you can poke holes into. Then near election, there will be new relevations that heavily undermine Trump and ban him. Americans are culturally easily cowed by authority, and those few radicals who stick with Trump already have been pre-demonized through Capitol riots. Biden can crush them with violence, while the silent majority will overlook it.

That way, through Biden is a poor candidate, there won't be a 3rd party who can challenge him, because Trump would have coalesced all the opposition that could have backed a less easily disposed candidate.
 

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He may have been co-opted and/or bought. I remember he and a group of bloggers got invited to a Trump event, and afterward, he had a major expansion of his operation (additional employee, office space, additional channels, etc). And from that point on, he had a significant change in tone also. This is circumstantial, but this what I suspected. I ceased from viewing this output from that point on.

Almost certainly this is going on all around social media/YouTube/Podcasting. There is no reason for governments not to buy these people off to do influence campaigns. It’s probably easier too, there are no people with ethics (whistleblowers) to interfere as might happen in a traditional news organization, plus these guys are basically in it purely for the money, and are not worried about integrity or truth.
 

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Big gains for Le Pen in France, Macron's party at 20%.

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The more far rights gains in Europe, the more EU will start to break apart. A few far right governments will break the western alliance into two camps. Eventually China and Russia can exploit this, ally with the far right governments and ensure balance of power politics returns in Europe.
 
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