Western Media Gets China Wrong A Lot of the Time

While the Anglo Saxon media does not get China wrong all the time, it does get China wrong a lot of the time.
Professor Kishore Mahbubani, renowned diplomat and Chairman of Aggregate Asset Management, gave his views in the Aggregate Future Series.
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[@MrStevemur]

It’s very polite of him to suppose that English media is “Getting China wrong,” rather than deliberately misleading people. I appreciate politeness, but as someone who’s grown up in this culture maybe it’s my duty to be more direct.

[@johnlay3040]

Yes, he needs to be polite. That's a soft power. Otherwise, people will reject him. This way even the enemies would listen.

[@hdvoice]

He did mention “Cultural bias” if anything.😅

[@whoswho7815]

I wonder what he has to say about USnake instigate wars, invade, murder innocent childern, loot and spreading propaganda around the world?

[@longcimb]

I think the Chinese people will support him if he counter western media lies more accurately and factually by setting up real time communication agencies by partnering with the pro China voices.

[@shumyinghon]

👍

[@jameschua3135]

It's called jealousy. Malicious jealousy. America has lost its marbles after having lost its Big Brother title.

[@plfong22]

Its deliberate by the Western Media.

[@beastmode8203]

Fuck China

[@plfong22]

@@beastmode8203 you poor poor jealous pot and sourpuss 🤭

[@MetaView7]

Absolutely. Keep them stupid, it is easier to control them that way.

[@ablam8]

A difference is the Chinese have cash in the bank. The Americans have debt. Credit card debt. School debt. Car debt. Always living above their means. Of course not everyone, but most of the common people.

[@zenlei8258]

China has internal debts of 200 trillion Yuan mostly by SOE. What is the difference ? American debts are in consumer and corporate. So which one will survive in ay economy downturn.

[@lisa.e5776]

Nowadays is the right moment to see which country manages their debt and financial sector with care and efficiency.

[@User-nw37]

@@zenlei8258 There is a huge difference in debt used for consumptions and debt used for investment. Please learn about it.

[@zenlei8258]

@@User-nw37 All the debts are the same and must be paid off.

[@zenlei8258]

@@User-nw37 It does not matter at all. The important thing is to keep the debt manageable. Taking on debts to spend on war machines is waste of money.

[@ptwlk]

He is Singapore's national treasure. 😀

[@Wia_Creations]

A neutral fair view and straight talk. Respect

[@magicsmurfy]

If I am white, I am always right. If you are yellow, you are always wrong. That's the kind of mentality that is going around. And if u can speak English, then u r always right; but if u only speak Chinese, your opinion is wrong, mostly. That is how the world works currently, and in most MNC companies.

[@GoldenKhanate06]

Not white, but pink Not yellow, but gold

[@angusmckenzie9622]

@John Lee "If I am white, I am always right. If you are yellow, you are always wro..." Look whose inferiority complex is showing.

[@magicsmurfy]

@@angusmckenzie9622 Not being inferior. But as soon as I arrived at UK, that was what we realized. When we were young, we never had that problem. Only when we started to leave the land of Asia into the land of white, then the white people kept on reminding us that they owned us. And when we started to work for MNC companies, this was even more so. That is from 30 years of working experience working for many top companies and the conclusion it came to. Once upon a time, we have these white people coming from the top, and started to teach us “strategy”. And when I told them us the Chinese have a long term vision than most of you white people, they don’t like it. The thing is, we live here, customers can also be our friends, so our plans have to be 10-20 years long; whereas someone just arriving from UK or US being a boss for 2-5 years, their vision is short term, becoz once they earn enough money, they leave, whereas us, we live with our customers for decades. So our strategy is always strong and longer than these outsiders. Unfortunately we are always being reminded that we are not English/American and our views (Chinese views) have always been discounted and discarded. Sometimes it’s very obvious, sometimes it’s very subtle. Again. I am speaking from a 30 years of working experience. So it’s not interior. I had to teach many Chinese people to stand up just becoz u cannot argue with them effectively in their mother tongue, it does not mean they are right. Today, I pity many White people who once upon a time were the Master here in Asia. But time has changed, and many white people cannot stand that disappearance of their superiority that they once enjoyed. They could not longer take our women and use them as slaves like they did back in the 1970s, 1980s. And let me tell u, many of them felt really bitter about these changes. That is why u now get what America are doing to China. Sheer jealousy. In the old days, if there is a nerd in the class, keep getting As in everything - u hv 2 choices, u work harder than the other person, or, u start victimizing the person, disrupt the person as much s possible, so that u get the A’s instead. That is exactly what is happening. If my competitor is doing worse than me, I win; but not thinking about how can I do it better and make my customer happier so I can get the business. Negative marketing tactic is an effective weapon, but it’s not in my warrior code of honour, if we are going to compete, we need to compete on equal terms.

[@angusmckenzie9622]

@@magicsmurfy “Not being inferior. But as soon as I arrived at UK, that was what we realized.” There’s a difference between being inferior and having an Inferiority Complex. “an unrealistic feeling of general inadequacy caused by actual or supposed inferiority in one sphere, sometimes marked by aggressive behaviour in compensation”. Your comment is dripping with manifestations of Complex, as are an extraordinary proportion of comments in this and many other threads relating to CCP China, winnie has as big a Complex as has ever been seen. Examples from yours, though “They could not longer take our women and use them as slaves like they did back in the 1970s, 1980s”; “That is why u now get what America are doing to China. Sheer jealousy.” “but it’s not in my warrior code of honour,”

[@magicsmurfy]

@@angusmckenzie9622 When we were young, we were told everyone was equal on earth. That was how we were taught in China. In our eyes, there were no Chinese, English, Africans etc.... just people. Then when I arrived at UK at the age of 14, they told me I am yellow. So we got to do lowly jobs like cleaning the shoes for others, or cleaning the toilet, or go and stack the dishes, sitting at the bottom of the table, most coloured people (not just the Chinese, but the Indians, Africans also) had to be like that and only the kids with white skin could sit at the top table & do nothing. So that was for the first time, I learnt racial discrimination. I even looked it up from the dictionary (coz my English was poor) and told the seniors that was what they were doing to us. And they all laughed at me for being naive (I was 14 years old), and beated me up anyway. We regular get beaten up in school - that was just a norm in the UK, u only need to blame yourself for not being White enough. The English said you Chinese lost the war (the opinim war, twice, becoz the British wanna to sell drugs to the Chinese legally and to make profit, but when the Chinese tried to fight back, the Brits did not like it, and started pounding the Chinese with guns and canons, so the Chinese had to apologise to the British and allowed them to continue to sell drugs to the Chinese people), that was why we Chinese are made to serve them the white people. That was the kind of environment we were brought up and for the first time in our lives, we knew skin colour does matter. I never had that feeling in China, at all. So this is not about inferiority complex or not, this is about not letting those people to step on us, ever, again. That is why, China, has to stand up, so we will never be attacked by 8 countries in the same time again, and made our citizens as slaves to the White people, ever, again. In my previous statement, I was being sarcastic. In fact, today, I own a couple of businesses, I employ quite a few people and I pay money to my US/Europe/ANZ partners suppliers. I am quite proud of that, becoz today, the yellow skin people are paying the white people to serve us the Chinese, the so-called inferior Chinese people. I am glad I have finally turned the tide after.... 40 years of trying. Now you know why I said what I said.

[@johnyossarian9059]

I have been following Western media coverage of China since at least the 1990's. If I had based my understanding of China solely on their coverage, then I would have thought that China has been continously failing upwards into the second biggest economy in the world. They have been saying for decades now that China is failing. But if you look at the actual data, China has been succeeding in almost any metric. I wish I had a time machine so I could take people back to China in the 1990's and then take them forward to today's China. They would blow their minds. Now, I am not saying China is a paradise on earth. They have problems and issues. But then again, which country doesn't have those??? China is certainly not the hell on earth that Western media keep portraying them as.

[@kevinkoo9065]

Respect each other and the world will be in peace.

[@yongzeehow2045]

US or Western democracies failure is the systems where the rulings government and opposition party always squabble amongst themselves,by the time they agreed in anything,the next administration come in .

[@adamiskandar5107]

Don't waste time pointing this out to the Democratic West. They will always maintain that their system is superior to anyone's else.

[@kongung563]

You are the real professor and talking about the fact not talking fake. Thank you for taking fact. The truthfulness is long term winner and fakes can’t catchup and that they will be ashamed of themselves.

[@legpol]

Kong Ung : Apparently the West was winning because the losers such as Kishore were complaining being victimized by the Western media.

[@ahjotco906]

The current U.S. deficit is over $32 trillion and counting. So, if US citizens were to balance this deficit, they are practically bankrupt?

[@watching99134]

Most US debt is owed to US citizens...so it's complicated.

[@angusmckenzie9622]

@ Aghot. Finance is a bit more complicated than that but if the US went bankrupt, CCP China would be next to follow. Without the US it goes back to beggar status

[@irritatedanglosaxon1705]

Asian has to awake that the imperialism Anglosaxon want to retain our hegemony

[@beastmode8203]

How many times are you going to change your name? We all know who you are man get out of here with that bullshit already.

[@angusmckenzie9622]

@ Abyss Anglo-Saxon. No idea what that means. Compose in you native language then use a translation app

[@lmyunxlee2005]

Khisore is the best.. Love you

[@orzdxy]

my left ear was pleased by this conversation

[@supahsmashbro]

The "pessimism" regarding China's economy is actually optimism from the Anglo Saxons. They are very hopeful and desperate for China to slow down growth, or better yet destabilize completely

[@gregwang8628]

They should be wrong because they are Anglo-Saxon breed, they discriminate all but themselves 😂

[@blessedland000]

一个人能把权力经过10年完全聚集在自己手中，而且背景14亿人口以及9千万党员的国家，客观讲这个人非常不简单。搞政治是一流选手，能够统合或消灭这么多政治势力，这个人的智力和精神力就绝不能小看。这和你喜不喜欢这个人无关。所以我不屑那些嘲笑和讥笑习是小丑或维尼熊的人，因为他们是不明智的情绪化的人。我愿意更客观和理性地看待这个人。

[@sam-th6su]

不同于毛时代，当代中国人支持的是共产党而不是神话某个领导人。这就意味着西方媒体宣传下的高压统治的中国是多么愚昧无知

[@KSMrK]

Im sure it wasnt for their naive behaviour but it was for their purpose act.

[@sttan2631]

He too sweet... Power is .. King simple as that... Power not born yesterday.. .

[@albertorodas6479]

The future is in the east

[@inuwooddog3027]

Western media can be very useful in finding problems and issues that a country need to address early. Even when they are not being truthful, they can point out the exploitable weakness of a country. Thanks.

[@jonhone1]

It actually caused a lot more harm than good. In some instances it could cause uprising and death because of believing in those fake news.

[@condorX2]

That's true. I saw this on the western media. CDC tracking rise of new XBB.1.5 COVID variant, already more than 40% of U.S. cases "The U.S. records 100 million Covid cases, but more than 200 million Americans have probably had it" KEY POINTS The U.S. has officially recorded more than 100 million confirmed Covid cases, but the actual number is probably at least twice as high. As the U.S. enters the fourth year of the pandemic, the virus keeps mutating into more transmissible variants, making it even more difficult to control. About 400 people a day are still dying from the virus and about 5,000 are being admitted to the hospital daily. “It’s really hard to stop this virus, and that’s one of the reasons why we’ve shifted the focus to hospitalizations and deaths and not just counting cases,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist, and director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health. Source CNBC 2022 12 28 200 million cases

[@navneet8269]

China western country ke liye ek majburi hai India Indonesia Malaysia Thailand Jaise Jo other country Hain unhen western country ko alternate Dena hoga Mat bhuliye China a communist dictator country hai uske sath bahut sare dispute Bharat khud bhi aage badh Raha hai aur dusre deshon ko bhi aage badha raha hai aap dekhenge fark padega China ka agar duniya mein koi ek Matra expert hai vah India hai none other than

[@legpol]

不，新聞工作者絕不會亂說，他們都是有一說一，有二說二。中國自己出錯出醜，他們當然報導中國的錯着醜聞。這些愛護中國的人士不責備中國，卻責怪新聞。說甚麼Western media gets China wrong a lot of the time. On the contrary, Western media got China right all the time.

[@nasigorengpecelesteh1506]

Bentar ak butuh google translate

[@geraldkhoo88]

Sorry, I disagree. Western media "wrong" China most of the times.

[@computer-ot8si]

what could he say about China now? hahah

[@computer-ot8si]

@@chinesejesuschrist 2:53 he said China will "gradually" taking away the zero covid policy...hahah

[@magicsmurfy]

What about China now? I am in China, and ever since the news for the reopenning on 8th Jan, my stocks have been doubled already. I have made enough money to buy 2 new Tesla Model X in just 2 days...... man, I am happy.

[@Daystar2006]

Either way Singapore's and Kishore's future will not look good😀🙃

[@yashkumar3196]

It will be good, because there would be no freedom invasion

[@wallacekatini3424]

CPC is extremely stronger each day!

[@hkfoo3333]

Strong yes but totally docile. And easily bullied

[@brianliew5901]

@@hkfoo3333 The present Chinese leadership is dominated by business-minded academicians and scholars whereas in the past was dominated by military men. See the difference?

[@irritatedanglosaxon1705]

@Brian Liew he has points, but what he doesn't know Chinese deliberately look weak. @HK Foo My friend, tell u something mainland Chinese is very strong

[@theuncomfortabletruth8348]

@@irritatedanglosaxon1705 I believe China would rather spend more on its BRI projects to benefit the rest of the world by creating more win-win situations. Word of mouth advertisement can be much more effective when it gain momentum.

[@beastmode8203]

Hell no they're not

[@shekhar5]

wonder what he's got to say on how the CPC handled the opening up of the country and sheer Covid surge and resultant deaths?

[@watb8689]

was there alot of death? hardly ever. most of it were fake news. I am in China in Shanghai and travelled to Beijing few days back. nothing much going on in the mortuary

[@rashius]

It's the fastest way to get through the virus. Get everyone infected asap, back to business asap.

[@irritatedanglosaxon1705]

Why don't u reveal ur country daily cases and deaths first? Need independent reports?

[@lv9657]

Tell us which country the covid cases didn't surged when opening up ? China opens up when the virus omicron weaken, as a results saved several millions lives, unlike usa Europe India, several millions already dead.

[@greatasia606]

Sheep, which western media told you China is facing a huge problem with COVID now? Ha ha ha!

[@len2063]

China strong growth was because of industrialisation now have it ended. Declining and old population, sanctions, diversified supply chains will put a challenge on future growth.

[@TheAdrianStalker]

Yayaya.... Let's us deal with our own problems and you worry about yours

[@thewelshdragon.5979]

Another Gordan Chang 🤣

[@len2063]

@@thewelshdragon.5979 An other realist.

[@siamcharm7904]

maybe 20 years from now.

[@jonhone1]

Your comment is based on lies again 🤣

[@legpol]

I found professor Kishore's ideas were all naive and illogical. For example, Kishore was promoting an "Asian Century" while what China wanted was a "Chinese Century"; the century belongs to China alone, China never wanted to share it with little guys such as Japan, etc.

[@angusmckenzie9622]

Mahbubani's superiority of the complex Asian mentality might have been fun 10 years ago but it's old hat now, he's yesterday's man. On the other hand the sino simps love it.

[@naxT890]

Thank You for sharing CCP talking points on a platform that is banned in China. The money must be really good.

[@MetaView7]

@naxT890 Are you talking about KZbin? It is not banned. KZbin declined to observe certain Chinese laws and chose to withdraw from the market.

[@truthmatters2782]

As usual brainwashed China haters have no idea how they're manipulated into believing Western lies.

[@philiptang3114]

Jealous ha?

[@hkfoo3333]

Get your facts correct . Anyone can access it without problems . Even gov't departments ate using it ehere needed . It's just that the gov't very wisely stopped it to reach the most risky influences people in China. I dare to challenge you on the treatments of CCP to it's people vs your country or any country on earth and let me demolish you

[@Yurilon]

sit down kid before you hurt yourself