AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Europe didn't like Trump but they went along with what he wanted so don't expect the message to get through their thick elitist skulls anytime soon. Every time the West accuses China of spreading propaganda in the West, I have to laugh because Beijing doesn't get the culture. Beijing doesn't engaged in the kind of hyperbole that seeds doubt like the West does against China. Chinese are snobs too where "they don't want to go down to that level" or it's beneath civilized people which is a joke because the West thinks China does do that all the time and they certainly don't believe the Chinese are civilized.
There was a debate in this forum arguing what is propaganda and the West doesn't engage in it because they only tell the truth which is a lie in itself. The truth is the most powerful propaganda. For example Blinken's meeting with the Chinese in Alaska. The Chinese countered Blinken's statements in front of the press noting American's problem with racism pointing to real well known incidents. Blinken was panicked afterwards that he invited a UN official on human rights to investigate the US to counter and show China. Everyone in the world knows the US has a racism problem so why the panic displayed by the US? China doesn't usually do that in public in such a manner. Blinken was the one that in front of the media wanted to embarrass the Chinese and was surprised when the Chinese side called back the media to make their own statements about the US. You can tell from Blinken's face that he believed that wasn't suppose to happen and tried to get the media out of the room. See China can do the same but they don't. Why? Because the only thing left is they're afraid Americans/Westerners might get angry. They could care less if Chinese get angry when they do it to them. In fact, they see it as a sign of success and if Westerners think something they do is successful, they keep doing it.
The Chinese can start serving back right now but the problem is the West has trained their citizens well to not read or watch foreign media. Their media certainly won't show it. So how do the Chinese overcome that? Here's another problem with the Chinese. I've noted before in this forum how some Chinese think they can get racists to like them in a one to one manner that if racists personally got to know them, they would change their minds. That's because they want to be personally liked by people. The problem is they aren't thinking about stopping hate in general. They're just looking to get a certain group of people to like them. Look at Hong Kong activists hiding behind police brutality against China. Fighting against police brutality is suppose to be a universal value, correct? And that's what these Hong Kong activists were trying to exploit to get sympathy. But when George Floyd happened, their true colors came out because Hong Kong activists showed it wasn't about police brutality. They were just exploiting it to get sympathy from "white" Americans who are anti-China and not from a universal kinship over a fight against police brutality. The activists were more upset that George Floyd stole their thunder. Nothing universally about it. And of course some Hong Kongers saw correctly that it's white Americans they had to appeal to get America the nation to do things against China for them but it wasn't about anything universal and helping to serve all. That's why Asians are susceptible to being sycophants. Sycophants only think about themselves and no one else. Look at Harry Wu. He had no association with any Asian human rights groups. It was only about him and the Westerners who loved him. He didn't care about not having any sort of kinship with any other Chinese activists. He even tried to charge money to any Chinese activists he may have indirectly helped in his anti-China propaganda campaign. Look at all that truthful propaganda that China could use...
In part that's how Beijing thinks. Look at Xi scolding Trudeau at the G20 for revealing publicly discussions over a private conversation. I think Trudeau was a special case because Western leaders reveal publicly what conversations they had with other leaders all the time when it serves them to. Beijing thinks the only way you can solve problem with someone is to talk to them and only them directly about it. So how does China by-pass the Western media's control over information given to their own people and also Western citizens tendency not to read foreign media sources? You talk to third parties about it. Hong Kongers were such in a weak position that they opened themselves to looking racist because they were so focused on getting "white" Americans' attention and white America didn't like George Floyd. Like I've noted before in this forum, Americans that are for English only is not because they think having a common language is necessary for country's prosperity. It's because they think if two people that are communicating in a foreign language in front of them, they think they're talking and making fun about them personally. Ever wonder why when refugees from Southeast Asia came to the US, they spread them throughout isolated parts of the country. It's because they didn't want these refugees together to speak as block in a democracy. China talking to others about the West... that's going to get their attention. And all China has to do is talk about the truth and the truth is the most powerful propaganda. Members in here posted recently news of how the West is hiding that China has positive approval from 80% of the countries in the world. That frightens the West. Ever wonder how are there are countries in the world that have no history with China that hate China with a fervor. It's because the West talks negatively about China to them to get them to fear and have nothing to do with China. And no one notices how civilized China is because it doesn't engage in that kind of propaganda...
