Why China is Pretty Bad at Soft Power

[@danz1182]

Left out here, America leverages its nature as a country of immigrants. Some of the most proud Americans you will find are Filipino and Vietnamese 1st and 2nd generation Americans. The US improving relations with India are due in no small part to the growing and properous South Asian communities in the US. So when a Filipino is weighing how they feel about the US, they are watching some US program on TV after working in a call center where they talked to Americans all day and reading texts from their aunt in California. When they are weighing how they feel about China, they are watching a news report on China's coast guard harassing a Filipino fishing boat. These things are important.

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER NUMBER ONE🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@mordet2]

😂

[@NOIZEM]

@@indiasuperclean6969lol

[@lettucesalad3560]

You're comparing hard power(ramming fishing boats) to soft power(open immigration policy). China is literally at war with all surrounding countries, threatening, attacking, bribing corrupt officials to do their bidding, destroying the environment.

[@YouReactYouAttend]

@@indiasuperclean6969 lol

[@Ben-rz9cf]

Its kind of interesting that Japan, despite being relatively culturally isolated and much smaller than china has so much more soft power than China. Japanese food is basically everywhere, manga and anime are popular across the world, and when people are asked where they would want to live or travel, Japan usually tops those lists despite not really being accessible as most japanese aren't fluent in a second language and they have been historically anti-immigration.

[@jasonquigley2633]

To be fair, while you're right about Japanese films/tv/anime /video games etc. Being much more popular, when it comes to food, Chinese food is far more popular than Japanese food. Further, most of the Japanese restauranta around the world serve food that is only slightly Japanese. Chinese restauranta, on the other hand, are both common and frequently authentic. You can get authentic Chinese food in any City in Europe. You can only get authentic Japanese food in the largest cities (like say Paris or London).

[@ydk1k253]

So true, I love japanese animation 😍😍

[@NineDiamont]

@@jasonquigley2633That’s note true here in Germany people don’t want Chinese food anymore, Japanese food on the other hand has become crazy popular.

[@fanofgaming8403]

As a South East Asian, another reason why Japan is reasonably viewed positively (mostly for SEA) is because they helped fund many infrastructure projects, especially during 70s and 80s. Actually, the metro station I use to go to school is built in collaboration with the Japanese.

[@k.k.c8670]

Well, Japanese wanting to be 'mascots' to westerners is their prerogative.

[@fehzorz]

In Australia they were doing well for a while. We even had a Prime Minister that spoke Mandarin as a second language. China was set to be in the same category as Japan and Korea are now for us. But wolf warriors, trade sanctions, Xi Jinping and COVID put an end to that.

[@eris9062]

I remember there being a big deal of the Chinese embassy and some diplomatic meetings we had, and even while not being into politics at the time I did like that we were improving our relationship with neighbouring countries, but I can’t see that happening with China right now.

[@Gibberishincarnated]

dont forget all the spies too

[@haochengzhai7156]

A lesson for you, not everything you say can be said. Or the next sanction awaits Australia.

[@k.k.c8670]

And no one mentions about banning Huawei and ZTE without a shred of evidence? Australia is such an angel

[@jwhan2086]

"A Prime Minister that spoke Mandarin as a second language" His name is Kevin Rudd, and he is now Australia's ambassador to the US. And as far as I know, his explanation for the worsening ties between Beijing and Canbara was quite different, which he gave during CCTV interview on AUKUS.

[@CapitalTeeth]

Image is a pretty big part of soft power. China wants to look like a strong, and belligerent force to be treated with the utmost respect. But they also want to be seen as a peaceful country that does no wrong. Those two are complete opposites, and as a result just do not work. China can act as friendly as it can, but if even one politician from another country says something inconvenient for them, ie 'Taiwan is a pretty nice country', then expect to get hit with wolf warrior statements and trade sanctions... which eliminates the soft power they built in that country. They banned Australian coal imports over calls for an independent investigation for the origins of Covid in Wuhan by Australia. Petty much?

[@planescaped]

The country is unhinged, untrustworthy, draconian and kinda creepy. Is it any wonder people who know better aren't too keen on the CCCP.

[@andrepoiy1199]

Chinese gov is very insecure

[@jaguor]

That's the thing. Completely two faced and lacking in decorum or maturity. Let's be clear, China today is a country that wiped out it's civility and actual culture in favor of letting the uneducated peasants lead. While the elites are more educated they still come from that backwards and small minded lot.

[@ejtattersall156]

There is a simple question that answers China v. US on soft power. Go anywhere and ask: Would you rather live in China or the US, almost no one will answer China.

[@billcipher2893]

What make you think they want to be seen as a "peaceful country that does no wrong"?

[@ShadowC14]

The crux of the issue is if the US is attacked, countries like France which politically hate the US would without a doubt come to its defense. Meanwhile if China is attacked, how many "allies" would actually come to their defense? Aside from North Korea basically everyone is only in it for their own benefit and arent willing to risk their own skin for someone, who in all honesty, would bulldozer over them given the chance. And this is absolutely all bc of how China acts, its hard to build trust when someone keeps acting aggressively. Even th US which is known as an international bully, is also at the forefront of most relief efforts. The US government and american citizens leave their own influences. Meanwhile you only really get the CCP since any outlier gets hushed. China has economic sway, but nobody will fight for em. They stand alone in a world by their own design.

[@EliF-ge5bu]

International bully? Then what would you call France, Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, UAE, Egypt, etc. etc? You think upholding one’s interest is being a bully? Just look at the UK. If any country is a bully, the UK is the granddaddy of bullies.

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

North Korea isn't really China's ally, their leaders are quite worried about Chinese influence actually. Chinese influence was heavy after the Korean War (after all, China basically won back their existence), but it was purged hard by the Kim regime which annoyed China greatly. They attempted to replace the leader with someone China friendly, but NK pushed back. This is why North Korea is so heavily "autarkic" (focused on self dependence above all, preferred by fascist governments of the 30s like Italy or Germany) even compared to other communist states of the time. They were fearful of everybody.

[@C-Farsene_5]

@@EliF-ge5bu dude, the UK would be one of the biggest international bullies of history with how they act

[@karlmarxii1898]

There are 1.3 billion people living in China and many more Chinese overseas. These people will defend China. It doesn't matter if China doesn't have any real allies, they have strength in numbers and have placed their people in other countries. As soon as any country decided to attack China, that country's Chinese community would rise up and the country will back down. Now if China is the one attacking that's a different story, but if China is being attacked you're sure to see every ethnic Chinese rise up in defense of the homeland.

[@navyseal1689]

​@@coreyleander8123France was in Afghanistan bud

[@ziqi92]

Japan and South Korea both have excellent soft power in the west because so many consume their products and entertainment. We use Samsung tech, we drive Japanese brand cars, we listen to KPop, we play games made by Nintendo and Sony. China has literally zero equivalent. Anything westerners consume that have Chinese origins are often from Taiwan or Hong Kong, two places far removed from the CCP. Of course, gaming company Tencent and Tiktok are doing very well for international Chinese products, but they’re way too new to make a dent compared to Japan and South Korea. As it turns out, the CCP’s determination to control the narrative through our rigid culture of 要面子 (roughly translates to “saving face”…basically having a good reputation) suppresses and inadvertently censors too much creativity on the home front. China has a rich culture and history, but when it’s the Americans who make amazing internationally renowned Chinese-inspired media like Kung Fu Panda and not the Chinese, clearly, something is wrong here.

[@spugelo359]

Look up Tencent. They don't seem to do anything of their own just buying out already successful companies. And then there's NetEase that acts as a localizer for western games. In short, basically bunch of parasites to the industry that do not really create their own stuff.

[@赵国震]

You forget the most important thing, Japan and Korea are semi-colonies of the US, they both have US troops stationed there, while China has always been treated as an enemy, China's network is not connected to the world, and the US European discourse does its best to discredit China. For example economic issues。1990. The Economist. China's economy has come to a halt. 1996. The Economist. China's economy will face a hard landing 1998. The Economist: China's economy entering a dangerous period of sluggish growth. 1999. Bank of Canada: Likelihood of a hard landing for the Chinese economy. 2000. Chicago Tribune: China currency move nails hard landing risk coffin. 2001. Wilbanks, Smith & Thomas: A hard landing in China. 2002. Westchester University: China Anxiously Seeks a Soft Economic Landing 2003. KWR International: How to find a soft landing if China.. 2004. The Economist: The great fall of China? 2005. Nouriel Roubini: The Risk of a Hard Landing in China 2006. International Economy: Can China Achieve a Soft Landing? 2007. TIME: Is China's Economy Overheating? Can China avoid a hard landing? 2008. Forbes: Hard Landing In China? 2009. Fortune: China's hard landing. China must find a way to recover. 2010. Nouriel Roubini: Hard landing coming in China. 2011. Business Insider: A Chinese 2012. American Interest: Dismal Economic News from China: A Hard Landing 2013. Zero Hedge: A Hard Landing In China 2014. CNBC: A hard landing in China. 2015. Forbes: Congratulations, You Got Yourself A Chinese Hard Landing.. 2016. The Economist: Hard landing looms for China 2017. National Interest: Is China's Economy Going To Crash? 2020. Economics Explained: The Scary Solution to the Chinese Debt Crisis 2021. Global Economics: Has China's Downfall Started? 2022. Cathie Wood: China's COLLAPSE Is FAR Worse Than You Think 2022. Business Basics: China's Economic Crisis, GDP is Crashing, Protests Everywhere. China's financial crisis is Here.

[@MsRubyet]

Lots of countries emphasise saving face though - including Japan and South Korea. Agree little Chinese culture has been picked up outside the country, though, apart from exceptions like the traditional arts of tai chi, king fu and feng shui.

[@baikeiast5255]

Dont forget japan denied aling themself with nazi

[@赵国震]

@@MsRubyet It will come when everyone agrees to stop smearing each other. see you in 2035!

[@0ptera]

Given how CCP acts in matters of HongKong, Taiwan it's no surprise democratic countries are at best weary of China. No amount of building projects will change that.

[@TheCrimsonS4ge]

It doesn't help that those building projects are widely regarded as predatory.

[@bababababababa6124]

@@TheCrimsonS4ge yeah I come from a country where China has built many things from skyscrapers to railways. But many of these projects are taking too damn long, or end up abandoned until a local company takes over anyway. So we’re collectively starting to kinda dislike China now 😂

[@davidty2006]

Also the Genocide in Xingjang

[@mnm5165]

@@davidty2006yeah and the Falun Gong thing also doesn’t help

[@A_B_1917]

CCP has literally better relationship with Taiwan, the country they are technically still at Civil War with, than US has with their own island neighbour of Cuba. It really isn't about "muh democracy", it's all about western hagemony, and the fact China threatens it. Most things China does bad, US has done worse.

[@azahel542]

I'll go on a hunch and say that being an oppressive dictatorship probably has something to do with it....

[@paaklapi]

This is 100 percent correct, and as long as the CCP continues to act like the aggressive imperialist authoritarian regime it is, China's soft power is going to be limited at best. The reforms needed to improve China's soft power won't be implemented because the CCP cannot allow them to be implemented.

[@rafaelmartinvannostrand2084]

defietely a wild guess 🤣

[@alessandrocanale6189]

Well yeah no shit mate

[@tomlxyz]

You'd think so but the west had good relationships with oppressive dictatorships regularly

[@alessandrocanale6189]

@@tomlxyz unfortunaly sometimes bad things has and had to be done to stop and or prevent even more horrible things so its perfecly justified supporting a dictatorship that is willing to support you against a more dangerous dictatorship couse the enemy of my enemy is my friend like in ww2

[@Interitus1]

In Canada there was a an incident where Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Huawei was arrested to be extradited to the US because they had a warrant out for her. In retaliation China arrested two Canadians, both of whom were named Michael. Giving them the name "The two Michaels" it was clear they were arrested for retaliation. And were tortured through methods of having lights on 24 hours a day. China does a great job of hurting their own reputation, they need no one else to do it for them.

[@fromfareast3070]

Wait, so US juristiction indeed extends to Canada?

[@CanadianMonarchist]

@@fromfareast3070Canada has an arrangement with the US by which we will extradite people who are wanted for crimes in the US.

[@gregorywhite9095]

And as soon as Meng was "released" from her multi-million dollar properties in Vancouver the two Michaels were suddenly found not guilty. The Chinese justice system is presided over by Xi Jingping and what he says goes.

[@shadowmancy9183]

@@fromfareast3070 US requested it, Canada had the final say of whether they'd respect the request or not.

[@AvengerII]

@@fromfareast3070 You obviously don't understand the concept of extradition treaties, do you?

[@Unmannedperson]

One country who I think has an interesting (and delicious) tactic for soft power is Thailand. They've embarked on a program of spreading Thai eateries across at least the US (and I'm sure elsewhere). It is why in many small US towns, you'll find a Thai place before finding other non-western cuisine, despite the relatively small proportion of the population with Thai heritage.

[@owendewaal9805]

You won't hear me complain, Thai food slaps, it's great xD

[@nenasiek]

I consider the thai soft power food scheme the best of any diplomacy scheme i know of. Its such a simple concept, food is love after all.

[@SpottedHares]

I thought it was just because Thai cuisine was good and USA cuisine was terrible.

[@DarkCloud246]

I don't think it was planned like that though

[@nenasiek]

@@DarkCloud246 it was, u can find lots of vids explaining the whole thing here on KZbin. Just search for 'thai food soft power or something like it and youll find it

[@MasayaShida]

Another issue is the lack of people-to-people respect. Here in Cambodia, the increase in mainland Chinese tourists also come with increasing human trafficking, money laundering, gambling, etc... Many see us as a poor country where they can do whatever they please. Oh and I observe they like to skip ahead in lines & throw away cigarette buds anywhere they please, maybe its just my experience but its too common not to mention. American, European or Russian tourists atleast learn Hello or Thank you in our language but Chinese come here and speak Chinese, few know how to speak English.

[@beerman204]

In my Thailand visits, as an American, I hear lots of complaints about Chinese tourists and their "crude" behavior.... I want to add that I should not paint all tourists with the same brush, there are good people everywhere including China of course... 🙂

[@baikeiast5255]

Combodia a useless country

[@SoulDuckling126]

Entitlement and the Chinese tourists. Everyone who ever encountered one always said the same, complete lack of hygiene, manners and respect 😂

[@xxxwang9805]

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈，你去过中国吗？中国国内哪些城市不比你们国家干净啊？游客脸上还写着我是中国人吗？😂😂😂

[@nekopop8159]

@@xxxwang9805Hello there, I am replying to you and I will explain to you why your country is being ‘hated’, no hard feelings okay? First of all, look at your comment. You seem to ignore the feelings of others that are not Chinese. And you don’t seem to care to try and understand them. Second of all. The Chinese citizens are coming to other countries with a lack of manners. And when people make a notice of it, your fellow netizens harshly criticize them Thank you for reading and I hope you understand.

[@sweepingtime]

Gee maybe don’t cancel everyone who just wants to refer to Taiwan as a country.

[@chheinrich8486]

Only hollywood is afraid of that anymore 😅😅😅

[@discosheepish2868]

Taiwan isnt a country?

[@randomanimation5085]

​@eilidhpitscheider415they used to be a independent country until the usa invaded soo you tell me

[@DOSFS]

@eilidhpitscheider415 If Taiwan isn't a country why CCP can't told them what to do then? That is kinda the point of being part of a 'country'. 😂

[@bababababababa6124]

@eilidhpitscheider415 that was one of the most braindead comments I’ve read on this channel, and that is really hard to achieve so well done bro.

[@me0101001000]

In Mandarin, there's a phrase called 差不多 (cha bu duo), which more or less means "close enough". In personal settings, it's a good thing, demonstrating what is practical without doing too much. But in professional settings, it is a negative thing, showing you are lazy and cutting corners. This has become the way of life on almost all levels of work now. The so-called "Tofu Dreg" buildings, the prioritization of facade over function, the attitude of turning a blind eye to anything bad and focusing on just the good. Truth is, this is nothing new. It's been like this for a long time. It's just that this has come to an ugly head due to Xi's constant push for more and more propaganda for foreigners. There's even a term for these foreigners who make propaganda and do work for the CCP one way or another. It's called a "white monkey" job. You don't even have to be white to be called a white monkey. That's just the term for the job.

[@Cunnysmythe]

Interesting insight, thanks

[@kiritugeorge4684]

Its CPC.

[@me0101001000]

@@kiritugeorge4684 tomato tomato

[@sebastianprimomija8375]

​@@kiritugeorge4684yeah thats what the CCP wants you to call it, so hard no. Its CCP.

[@cxzact9204]

@@kiritugeorge4684 Not in English.

[@voodoodummie]

A big point of soft power is how it is (at least in appearance) not tied to anything remarkable. US movies are spread over the world, but don't have the appearance of asking anything more than money. It is almost better to just keep spreading soft power and later decide how to leverage it, if at all. China always has a hard expectation behind each initiative, and that is a strong tell that people are being manipulated.

[@LukeTremblay-mo4lf]

It is nothing about US movies or something. I think many people don't know the reality. The US is controlling information flow through funding NGOs around the world, those NGOs are the main funding source for Authors and news platforms etc. The US did this in Europe in Cold world era, "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty" was funded by the US around 1970s. We are already in a second cold war.

[@LukeTremblay-mo4lf]

People feels like China had a weak soft power only because they are in the US influence hemisphere.

[@blackjacktrial]

China was winning the soft power war, but they couldn't swallow their pride when anything went against the plan. Soft power can't be an "or else" proposition, otherwise it's really hard power by stealth.

[@recoil53]

@@LukeTremblay-mo4lf That statement in itself shows the limits of China's soft power. Yes, there are places where they have it, but those are also not the places where they most desire it.

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

@@LukeTremblay-mo4lf I'm Mongolian, been a Chinese puppet state from mid 1600s to 1910s and a Russian puppet from 1920s to 1990. Our government can scarcely move without consideriny China, if we piss em off, border gets closed, trade disrupted, economic doomsday clock starts ticking. Despite this, Chinese soft power influence here is shite lol, American soft power is high here, basically the only foreign movies to get screening are Hollywood movies, it's rare to miss an American movie with above 60 mil at the box office. Even Korean and Japanese influences trump Chinese with Kpop, anime, Kdrama and such being immensely popular (a lot of young people can make rudimentary conversation just by watching these ) while for Chinese media? Maybe a few historical drama that some people watch and that's about it. Where do our people want to study? USA, Canada, Germany, UK, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan etc. China's preferred at the level of Hungary (tho no offense to Hungary, they're just unfathomably smaller state).

[@erf3176]

Chinese soft power fails because when you give them an inch, they take a mile. Duterte tried to reduce Manila's dependence on the USA because he didn't like being criticized for his terrible government. Instead of taking a friendly tone with the Philipines, Beijing used the opportunity to immediately and notoriously move into Filipino fishing waters and assert itself over disputed territories. So the lesson for the Philipines was that you can't just talk to China to make things better. Now, Manila isn't just interested in returning relations with the USA to previous levels. They want more US military presence than they've had in decades. And they are gonna get it. All the Chinese had to do was act gingerly around the Philipines while the US was away. Maybe focus on annoying other countries by fishing in their waters and let the Filipinos feel that diplomacy with China does work. The Filipinos instead got a lesson on not trusting China. And every country in the region was watching.

[@anadaere6861]

Yep Noynoy was pushed over by the CCP Duterte talked and tried to friendly with them pushing back outside interference Both resulted in the CCP just being more hostile

[@freneticness6927]

The soviet union was surprisingly way better at soft power than china or even sometimes the west was. At one point most of the world was pretty much under the complete influence of the soviet union and looked to them to solve all of their problems. China seems incapable of ever even slightly portraying themselves as altruistic in any way. To be altruistic in china is considered to just be a stupid person so they never want themselves to be portrayed that way.

[@dailyrant4068]

I never understood why China was so aggressive with Philippines, if it's just fishes. It made senes to me why they want SEA for other things like natural gas but didn't seem like the fishing makes sense. Everyone is aggressive about things that matter to them, but I think China would be smarter to choosing and balancing what's worth it. In English we say "Check if the juice is worth the squeeze"

[@One.Zero.One101]

🔖China committed a terrible foreign policy blunder in Southeast Asia. As someone living in this region, the Chinese Ambassadors in our host countries are massively unpopular. Every single day they stand on a soap box and claim our territories as theirs, and when our governments respond with protests, the Chinese Ambassadors play victim and blame us for *"increasing tensions in the region".* This plays out almost on a daily basis.

[@ZhangtheGreat]

@@dailyrant4068 That's because, for Beijing, territorial claims are indisputable. "Our territory = ours." Now, there's historical justification for that kind of attitude: during the 19th Century, China had its territories ripped away repeatedly, so the lesson it took away from that was "never cave" when it comes to territorial claims, even if it means alienating other claimants.

[@aldraone-mu5yg]

They don’t make any decent media either, it’s more important than you might think. How many young people have a soft spot for Japan and it’s media I know I do.

[@qtheplatypus]

Korea’s k-pop industry is a part of it’s soft power strategy.

[@azahel542]

They seem to suffer the same issue as India and others on the media matters, when they make stuff it's usually a goofy movie about some old local tales with a lot of lame housewife drama that nobody cares about. In China's case it's even worse because they go hard on shoving propaganda, which is quite jarring. Look, the Matrix, Star Wars, Naruto, Lord of The Rings and others didn't get popular talking about local culture. (Not to mention, the chinese language is ugly af.)

[@haochengzhai7156]

Chinese TV dramas and songs are popular in many parts of Southeast Asia, Africa, and Europe, but these are not the home turf of the stars. They make enough money in China and don't need to expand their markets.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

​@@azahel542naruto is full of inspiration of local japanese folklore. and Lotr is inspired alot by europe history.

[@azahel542]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 Yes and that's a great way to export culture, but both are original stories that are not just housewife melodrama set in ancient times real-ish place. Make Chinese/Indian/whatever Naruto or LOTR with a good story AND cultural elements only as a background and people will love it.

[@jaguor]

The reason is simple: entitlement. The Chinese government feels entitled to respect and deference eithoutbjaving ever done anything to earn it. The primary motivating force to this entitlement is the hundred years of humiliation, a method of thinking that drives them to make up for what europe, japan and america did to them in the 19-20th centuries. They feel like the world owes them respect because of how 'old' their civilization is and how rich they became in short time. The problem is they havent done anything to earn that respect. They throw around money expecting that the miney will garner them respect when all it does, through how they use it, is create animosity. People feel likr the Chinese look down upon them, which truthfully they do. They also have soft skin, any insult, no matter how slight is met with immediate condemnation snd my favorite line 'hurts the feelings of the Chinese people'. This entitlement and lsck of ability to accept criticism and childlike temper tantrums in the face of resistance makes them unfit to be a world power and removes any expectations of granting respect. This on top of how they deal eith territorial disputes, is it any wonder why people dont like them?

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER NUMBER ONE🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@jaguor]

@@badofi revisionism isn't new to the Chinese. Objectively the century of humiliation is the result of Chinese arrogance and belief in their own superiority. Consider then how that behavior mirrors today's behavior where they believe they are superior. It's cyclical and shows a lack of self awareness and delusional thinking.

[@SoulDuckling126]

Good observation, their reaction to slight insults is so memeable.

[@Western_Decline]

@@jaguor Educate yourself about western imperialism and what the Whyytes did around the world: murder, theft, colonization

[@jaguor]

@@Western_Decline just the whites huh? No other culture/people has spread across the world to control it, murdering people in the thousands and establishing control/colonies/kingdoms? So the Mongolian empire was established peacefully? How about the Huns?tartars? Parthians? Persians? Hell the Chinese didn't conquer any lands at all? If anyone needs a history lesson it's you. Imperialism is another name for what we have done to each other for centuries. I'm quite educated I history. Open a book before you spout uninformed and ignorant statements. You belittle yourself and the education hour parents are trying to give you. Unless you're a wumao. If that's the case maybe learn to spell.

[@LucasYue-w8y]

As a Hongkonger who left our beloved homeland due to the autocratic regime, I've witnessed the disappearance of fundamental pillars like freedom of speech, press, and judicial independence. Trust among Hong Kong's people has eroded, and fear of being reported pervades every aspect of life. The once-vibrant civil society has disintegrated, and even protesting outside Hong Kong carries risks, as returning activists can be accused of endangering national security. Today, the distressing news broke that eight Hong Kong activists, including Nathan Law, have been charged. The extent of the situation is exemplified by Law's family being taken to the police station with no indication of their release. Such developments are difficult to fathom in democratic nations, as they involve the arrest and persecution of individuals solely for expressing their views and advocating for their cause. This suppression of dissent underscores the erosion of democratic values in Hong Kong and calls for urgent international attention and support. We, the people of Hong Kong, once believed in China's "peaceful rise." However, the reality we face now compels us to hope that others awaken to the truth sooner rather than later. Hong Kong continues to pay the price for our misplaced trust, and it is crucial that the international community stands in solidarity to address the deteriorating human rights situation and defend the principles of democracy, freedom, and human rights.

[@baikeiast5255]

Hong kong love british master..

[@dekumutant]

@@baikeiast5255 isn't it crazy that the CCP is so awful they make the colonials look good? Xi just keeps winning lmao

[@aldeno8055]

@@badofi+10000000 social credit points

[@deezeed2817]

This Brit is a liar. China handled Hong Kong without bloodshed. The reason why these stupid polls show a poor image is because of the media control the U.S has over the west. If China can break free of America's stranglehold over things like social media and traditional media then the world will see a different side of China. The Americans have done everything to destroy China because it's a rival power. That's China crime. Everything else they say about China is a complete lie.

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER NUMBER ONE🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@xiu-li]

I grew up in China till age 25. In China, they say, if the problem is small blame Japan, if it's big blame the US.

[@jiangyewei9184]

所以你认为美国和日本对中国的威胁不存在吗？

[@grape.juices]

I’m sorry bro but you didn’t grow up in China until the age of 25. You were born and raised in China and left the country as an immigrant at 25. And that’s what you are, a Chinese immigrant. I’m Chinese and I’ve never ever heard of that. Funny what some people will do online in pursuit of likes at the expense of one’s motherland. I’m wasn’t even born and raised in China but I know about all the lies being told about China and it makes my blood boil. As a Chinese person who’s lived abroad my whole life I was taught to be ashamed of my heritage and my origins. My Chinese brothers and sisters stayed in China to build up our country to what it is today. Sure being the most successful country in the history of humanity can piss some people off. Success is measure not just by economic advancement, but by people’s standard on living in China today as opposed to how we were right after WW2 and the civil war. No country on Earth has developed and grown as much as China has in the past 40 years in all of human history. That fellow Chinese person to me is enough reason for both the little midget and the criminal to team up to try to destroy China. History doesn’t lie. Our demise two hundred years ago was a product of collective western invasions and aggression, it’s not much different today. The difference is that we are not the same China and that most if not all of these countries know we are their most important trading partner. I’m glad you stayed out of China. I don’t think you belong in our motherland. Please stay out and don’t come back. Watch China’s grandiose comeback from the outside, it might be a better view

[@ianlim1000]

Says the one who still can use youtube, comment how "great" the motherland is.

[@apocain]

​@@grape.juices别急，再忍十年。一切都会见分晓的。

[@robbykurnia9671]

​@@grape.juicesthe communist regime became capitalist because capitalism was great compared to Mao's communism

[@jeffc1347]

When visiting China I noticed the country has a very odd inferiority complex. Like even when our plane was landing the announcement said "Shanghai is one of the greatest cities in the world." Like, why announce that on an airplane? I also saw a news broadcast at a new airport in Beijing and everyone being interviewed kept saying "We are so proud of China, this is Chinese airport, China greatest country." It was pretty funny when the interviewer said "here is the designer" to them and it was clearly a western European guy.

[@gameover-pw4mw]

Chinese people generally lack a sense of inferiority. If there is a dislike and hatred towards Western colonizers and arrogant white supremacy. China is not Japan, South Korea is stationed by the United States. China is an independent country and will not tolerate your arrogance! I hope you can understand!

[@bowenzhang2259]

Well, here comes the culture barrier and some of you arrogant Americans would never even try to learn and respect it. Go to any of these cities with a rich history and you will hear the same words like "Xi'an is one of the greatest cities in the world. It's the capital city of 6 ancient dynasties." Although Xi'an is not even close to international centers like Shanghai and Shenzhen, the people who live there are still proud of being citizens in it. Every city has to show its own highlights to attract visitors and that's why you've heard all those broadcasting things. Do you get it now? I'm sorry to break it to you but we Chinese have our pride but we do not have main-character syndrome :D

[@WallNutBreaker524]

You just got hit with "Propaganda". 😂

[@kaneidareyue7715]

I've been to China to visit families, never heard of that sort of announcements.

[@dzmmm6552]

​@@kaneidareyue7715me too, I'm hong kong people, but never hear it in China 🤔

[@englishguy215]

I agree to an extent that world affairs have overshadowed their soft power attempts. What you did not touch on was the aggressive manner in which China dealt with any countries which did not go along with the Xi Jinping rhetoric. For instance the way that Australia was treated for suggesting a completely independent enquiry into the source of Covid, the underhand use of Confucius Institutes to push a heavily biased view of culture and history as well as shutting down open debate. On top of this we have the issue of covert police stations opened up in various countries with the excuse of helping their own people whilst ignoring the Chinese consulates were already there to do that sort of work any way. If this is China's idea of soft power I suggest they put away the block of wood they use to hit every country with and pick up a rubber truncheon instead, they may find that to be just a little softer. The truth is China is not interested in projecting soft power, they are interested in getting everyone to agree with them. A lot of poorer countries have been bought off but most western countries know a rabid dog when they see one.

[@rhubarbjin]

Adding to this (good) comment, I would point out that soft power can only be effective when it's a truly organic, bottom-up effort. Hollywood, K-pop, Doctor Who, Eurobeat, etc -- these are genuine creative efforts that arise spontaneously from within their countries' population. Chinese soft power, on the other hand, is wielded as a tool to sway global opinion; in other words, the CCP views soft power as *means* to achieve hard power... and that's why their attempts ring hollow.

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER NUMBER ONE🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@jacob4920]

That's because most western countries have two world wars' worth of lessons to fall back on, in what not to do with authoritarian rivals. The developing world generally does not have that. The only thing that they are universally agreed upon is: "white people bad!" China is taking advantage of this post-colonial racism. They've even tried to push it in America (among America's numerous minorities), but even that is starting to fall to pieces.

[@paulwally9007]

Everything you wrote is spot on.

[@Western_Decline]

Remember, only Western countries are allowed to talk aggressively on foreign policy. If China does it, it's "wolf-warrior diplomacy" 🙄

[@gersonalves8474]

A good indicator that China's soft power is gone is also measured by online content against them. Up to a few years ago, few westerners would dare speak out against the CCP regime on social media (especially KZbin). As the CCP has its pinkies controlling the platform with its influence. It still happens to a certain degree, but much less than what it used to be for sure. Nowadays, a large prestigious channel like TLDR news can post a video like this without fear of prosecution by the CCP or its pinkies. This is a great indicator that their power is dwindling!

[@saiganesh7502]

actually that is where you westerners are wrong. It is true china doesn't have a good reputation in developed western countries. However, china has a very good reputation and an awesome image among the 3rd world in places such as Africa, Latin America and poor parts of Asia. These are places that have suffered a lot of damage from European colonialism and American imperialism. Hence when china comes to help build their country, especially after being terribly exploited by the white man, they love china. Many Africans, Middle easterners and Latinos see china as their heroes rescuing them from the cruel White people.

[@edmondkazella5711]

Just curious, when you mention westerns not being able to criticize the CCP, do you mean mainstream entities/organizations like John Cena and the NBA? They have absolutely went through what your talking about but I think “few” (as in almost no one) is not as true. Especially online, western non-mainstream organizations/people who were quite open about their negative views on china.

[@porridgeramen7220]

"TLDR can finally post this without fear of prosecution" WHAT CRACK ARE YOU SMOKING!?

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER NUMBER ONE🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@southcoastinventors6583]

Who knew slavery and following the book 1984 as how to manual wouldn't make you friends. Also go India I liked the food better anyways

[@midnightflare9879]

Man, it's almost like no matter how much power you have, if you're a tyranic technocracy, people will hate you.

[@pedrob3953]

More like if you're a geopolitical rival, they will hate you.

[@haydencrawford8552]

China is literally the love child of 1984 and cyberpunk 2077

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER NUMBER ONE🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@SacredCASHcow]

@@haydencrawford8552 no they have none of the cultural significance to be cyberpunk. they don't have an underground punk rock scene or creative tech scenes. they literally steal all their tech ideas and musically and had more artistic culture 1000 years ago. They aren't relevant.

[@paulogonzales7431]

@@pedrob3953 Nah people hate insincerity and china embodies insincerity

[@DozyBinsh]

China's wolf warrior diplomacy stuff was arguably successful, it's just that the point was to rally domestic support at the cost of international soft power. Trump's America was basically doing the same thing, throwing tantrums at the G7 so his base would think he's 'tough' and doesn't let the US get 'pushed around' or whatever.

[@cloudwithwind574]

There are 197 countries in the world, and the media is mostly controlled by the G7, so you think China's soft power is weak, but in reality, China's soft power is very strong

[@DozyBinsh]

@@cloudwithwind574 Okay. That doesn't have anything to do with what I said.

[@nickolashogg259]

@@cloudwithwind574source?

[@captainbroady]

@@nickolashogg259 dude thinks the world only consists of the G7 + China XD

[@andrewbabyng4124]

If u hate Trump, u can vote him out. The High Court also ensures the loser of the election will be kicked out of the office. The Chinese system does the opposite. It ensures the president can be crowned without consulting the people's will and the Chinese court will sentence people who say no. This is the soft power of the USA, not one particular president

[@Daivd1111]

Major reason is they basically have their own internet, so there is very little communication from either side. All the 'soft power' product are produced by the government, which sucks no matter what country produced them.

[@heychrisfox]

Not entirely true. Most people within China know how to access the outside internet (although it's a bit riskier to do now than it used to be). Additionally, there's lots of good media being produced in China that doesn't have too much government influence. The issue is that the good media is hard to access out of China, both because of language barriers and censorship. Other nations don't have to worry about censorship, so viral successes can go on to do their thing and be awesome.

[@Daivd1111]

@@heychrisfox Exactly what I said, of course they have good content, but it is on 'their internet' and what is on 'our internet' is government produced garbage.

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

@@heychrisfox I feel like language barrier isn't really an issue. In today's globalized world, a work in almost any language can be a hit. Japan and Korean aren't really that far from Chinese in being different from Western languages, yet their media is so powerful.

[@heychrisfox]

@@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 There's a lot of powerful Chinese media too. It just doesn't get translated. That's the barrier I was speaking on; not that it's impossible to get translations of Chinese media, but rather that most Chinese media is not sought out for translation and mass distribution. If you aren't on a big streaming service, nobody is watching your cool Chinese epic except die-hard fans.

[@aoeu256]

most of chinese donghua and dramas and music are aviailable in youtube. Bilibili, baidu, weibo do not disallow Westerners from using them, lots of Chinese use VPNs to get around the firewall, the problem is that there are a lot of uneducated Chinese who cant from their own opinions on things, so only people from universities who can do critical thinking that can use VPNs.

[@rogercarbonell3696]

Maybe the fact that all direct neighbors are at least weary of China with the only exception being Pakistan for other reasons. Also their bad debt policy makes the IMF look friendly.

[@mohammedkumar3733]

it's entertaining to see this jealous China haters channel fueling some ridiculous stories about China which aren't even close to reality. 🤣🤣🤣 If mainland China is so unpopular - hated by many , then why would there be millions of foreigners living, working, studying and touring every province each year? 🤣🤣🤣 Do you hear any travel advisories warning about human rights abuse in China ?!? 👇👇👇 Why China can grow year on year if there are situations of rampant and horrific rights violations there? Or China is so different from others..?? Then China is magic!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@A_B_1917]

Except not at all? China provides better terms and interest rates than IMF.

[@Civman-yr8lb]

@@A_B_1917 Debt traps. Better terms and interest, but the debt trapped countries are not paying them off anyway.

[@Emilechen]

​@@Civman-yr8lbas if these countries were not in debt before arrival of China, so what don't the West and Japan just give them free credit, or provide cheaper infrastructure projects than China, in 80s, China also borrows money to develop itself, why China is not in debt?

[@Emilechen]

Japan has islands dispute with all its neighbors: Russia, 2 Koreas, Taiwan and Mainland China, Turkey also have has the same problem with all their neighbors expect Azerbaijan, which South Asian country really trusts India? and how many Lain America nations really like the US? finally, do the Pacific islands nations consider Australia as their worthy leader, or just a Anglo-Saxon colonizer,

[@DOSFS]

Not only in the West that China opinion is badly receive in coming years. While many developing countries have more favorable view on China, many have unfavorable view due to many economic 'investment' affecting local country like Chinese businessmen go on real-estate buying spree in SEA countries that effect local real estate increasing pricing while many Chinese officials or propagandists like to warn about 'the West is taking over' many saw Chinese take over instead. Not mention illegit Chinese scammers, drug & human trafficker and others that Chinese official didn't tried to help or even mentions officially after put them out of China and became its neighbor's problems instead especially in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnams.

[@azumishimizu1880]

Western propaganda.

[@DOSFS]

@@azumishimizu1880 Chinese propaganda* 🤡

[@azumishimizu1880]

@@DOSFS Why dont we hear alot about the Vietnam war and Korean war in US media... It isnt that hard too find out who the real Propaganda machine is.

[@hentielover]

@@azumishimizu1880 "Why don't we hear a lot about the Vietnam war [...] in US media" Sorry, usually I don't respond to trolls, since a lot of them have absolutely brain dead arguments, but this one has got to take the cake. I mean the Vietnam War is the war that is most portrayed in US media (maybe second to WW2, but still)! How can you possible complain about it being portrayed too little in US media???!? Like, can't you guys at least attempt some mental gymnastics and go with the typical thing of "Oh, the US tries to portray its soldiers as the victims in the Vietnam war, even though they are the invading imperialists that are murdering civilians" or whatever??? Like, at least put in some effort bruh

[@azumishimizu1880]

@@hentielover Typical a dumb American centric reaction. You picked out the Vietnam war and left out the Korean war. Their your argument already dies. Fact is: WW II gets far more coverage dipped in a disgusting propaganda sauce.

[@rickysanchez7897]

South Korea also excels in soft power like BTS makes up 0.5% of the South Korean economy so imagine all the K-pop stans around the world interested not only with their K-pop group but with Korean culture in general

[@Chrissy717]

Hold on, what.

[@vocassen]

Holy moly you're right. Apparently this includes ripple effects like additional tourism to Korea and stuff, which other KPop bands will influence, too, but still, that's impressive.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

BTS or kpop in general is uncomparable to hollywood or anime. kpop mostly only attracts young females and cant really deliver "subtle message"/propaganda unlike movies. thats like saying china has soft power just because of jackie chan.

[@jasongaylard2547]

There are a lot of great Korean tv shows on Netflix too.

[@赵国震]

You forget the most important thing, Japan and Korea are semi-colonies of the US, they both have US troops stationed there, while China has always been treated as an enemy, China's network is not connected to the world, and the US European discourse does its best to discredit China. For example economic issues。1990. The Economist. China's economy has come to a halt. 1996. The Economist. China's economy will face a hard landing 1998. The Economist: China's economy entering a dangerous period of sluggish growth. 1999. Bank of Canada: Likelihood of a hard landing for the Chinese economy. 2000. Chicago Tribune: China currency move nails hard landing risk coffin. 2001. Wilbanks, Smith & Thomas: A hard landing in China. 2002. Westchester University: China Anxiously Seeks a Soft Economic Landing 2003. KWR International: How to find a soft landing if China.. 2004. The Economist: The great fall of China? 2005. Nouriel Roubini: The Risk of a Hard Landing in China 2006. International Economy: Can China Achieve a Soft Landing? 2007. TIME: Is China's Economy Overheating? Can China avoid a hard landing? 2008. Forbes: Hard Landing In China? 2009. Fortune: China's hard landing. China must find a way to recover. 2010. Nouriel Roubini: Hard landing coming in China. 2011. Business Insider: A Chinese 2012. American Interest: Dismal Economic News from China: A Hard Landing 2013. Zero Hedge: A Hard Landing In China 2014. CNBC: A hard landing in China. 2015. Forbes: Congratulations, You Got Yourself A Chinese Hard Landing.. 2016. The Economist: Hard landing looms for China 2017. National Interest: Is China's Economy Going To Crash? 2020. Economics Explained: The Scary Solution to the Chinese Debt Crisis 2021. Global Economics: Has China's Downfall Started? 2022. Cathie Wood: China's COLLAPSE Is FAR Worse Than You Think 2022. Business Basics: China's Economic Crisis, GDP is Crashing, Protests Everywhere. China's financial crisis is Here.

[@rorytribbet6424]

Chinas attempt at soft power remind me of when Eric Cartman starts trying to pretend to be nice to people on South Park.

[@Elemblue2]

Best example

[@drmajalis1583]

The problem is, you can try and project all of the soft power possible, but once you start openly resorting to hard power, people will only see that. Just look at how quickly Canadian public perception on China dropped after the political detention of the two Michaels Most of the world doesn't see Chin'a infrastructure projects, academies, or attempts at cultural exportation, that stuff just gets overshadowed by the uighur genocide and Xi looking like he's gonna start WW3 over Taiwan It was much the same kind of hit to perception (though not as bad) that America suffered in the international community over the Iraq War, and as another recent example, the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

[@Christmas12]

nah that's 'soft power' (media) ask anyone, no one gives a fk about Uighurs (it's just an excuse), most people wouldn't know where Uighurstan is, then most of them would be repulsed if they realized they were accidentally defending Muslims, and definitely don't mention that Uighurs are often the ones who carry out suicide bombings under the ISIL-K banner in that part of the world - with a helpful media and the right propaganda you can get people to believe all sorts

[@AnagramGinger]

Even the BnR initiative has come under fire because they give credit to countries who can’t afford it. With promises of economic growth, all built by the Chinese, so it adds 0 value until it is up and running. Once they default on their debt, which they will, China leverages this to establish a 99 year lease in a foreign country. They did this in Sri Lanka and their navy has used it to dock.

[@Christmas12]

@@AnagramGingerNot this again- the Vast majority of Sri Lanka's debt is to U.S. and European financial institutions, as well as Western allies Japan and India, don't be insinuating China targeted SL for a debt trap unless you plan on calling out everyone else too - Sri Lanka made stupid decisions all on their own

[@spaceinvader992]

When you treat your customers with disrespect and bullying they will look elsewhere..simple

[@robertsanders7060]

Being aggressive gets you no friends and ends you up being ignored by everyone else.

[@southcoastinventors6583]

Also following the novel 1984 as how to manual is yielding optimal results as well. I love this channel for stating to obvious but with more British

[@jdc3636]

USA begs to differ.

[@nekopop8159]

This is one of the reasons why China doesn’t have much allies. Compared to the US having so much partners.

[@Elemblue2]

@@jdc3636 This "All fights must be an angle and a monster, or I pick the monster" is absolute political discourse bs. Grow some nuance.

[@junyin5950]

It's so funny. Those who have invaded other countries and expanded their colonies for hundreds of years say that China, which has never invaded other countries, is weakening. That's Westerners, Americans, Europeans and Americans. Two little brothers from the United States, Canada and Australia, and two dogs from the United States, Japan and South Korea. If you think China is weak, why not try to go to war with China? It makes no sense to fantasize about China's weakness on the Internet. And India. India has border disputes with all of its neighbors. Do Indian women have democracy?

[@CaraTheStrange]

How did i not realise the Confucius Institute was a ccp thing.I didn’t realise it was an international thing and thought it was more independant. The local chaper where i live provides mandarin classes for highschool students.

[@Ryan_Alwi]

Yeah Confucius institutes have been known to harbor Chinese foreign exchange students with communist sympathies who rat out students who speak out against the regime to the group & can get their relatives back home in trouble

[@azahel542]

It's a shame, really. The CCP just can't let people have nice things without sticking their dirty fingers in it.

[@Entertainment-]

They are also there to intimidate Chinese international student.

[@user34274]

They are used for spying activities, at least in Australia.

[@ScuffTuff]

I feel China has to realize they way to win countries is to win people. It’s not just coming off as friendly (which wolf warrior diplomacy is the opposite), it’s also promoting culture. Look at Japanese food, Hollywood, the British Wave (rock and the Beatles particularly), Thai food, Bollywood, K-Pop, K-Dramas, increasingly Korean movies, anime, video games, etc…

[@2222hottiee]

China is doing alright especially among women. There is bit more interest to chinese films and series, makeup styles and products, video games. I think chinese kpop idols and asian influencers have influenced little bit more open mindedness towards china.

[@junyin5950]

It's so funny. Those who have invaded other countries and expanded their colonies for hundreds of years say that China, which has never invaded other countries, is weakening. That's Westerners, Americans, Europeans and Americans. Two little brothers from the United States, Canada and Australia, and two dogs from the United States, Japan and South Korea. If you think China is weak, why not try to go to war with China? It makes no sense to fantasize about China's weakness on the Internet. And India. India has border disputes with all of its neighbors. Do Indian women have democracy?

[@ScuffTuff]

True, it is slowly growing. I guess what I’m trying to say is I feel like China needs to put a more direct focus on developing pop culture to export abroad and promote culture and tourism. South Korea and Japan both have specific policies their governments are working on and it’s going fantastically for both. China could very easily do the same and would likely be insanely successful at it

[@karlmarxii1898]

Well they are winning people in a way. By sending their people to live, work, and study abroad and establish overseas Chinese communities. That's their soft power. The West would not dare to expel the entire Chinese community because it would go directly against Western values of equality and freedom. So sustaining overseas Chinese communities is China's soft power.

[@khangaroo8166]

@@2222hottiee issue is most of these things are attributed and rebranded as Japanese or Korean, like genshin, douyin makeup, and y2k fashion. if China really wants soft power it should be leaving a cultural identity behind that is uniquely Chinese

[@downundabrotha]

As a New Zealander for me Taiwan should never be invaded I still personally see Taiwan as a country and no one will ever change my mind 🇹🇼

[@huaiwei]

Your government is too soft on China, however.

[@bobcharlotte8724]

Accidentally releasing that present to the world at the end of 2019 was an extremely effective form of soft power.

[@adamvifrye2690]

nah man, that was norweigan fish exports!!! this is definitely a great way to gain soft power...

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER NUMBER ONE🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@LostBrit_292]

Accidently releasing that present, then.... -declaring that it actually came from Italy - entered China through Australian beef imports -originated in America (fort detrick) and was a US bioweapon etc etc

[@DarrenWatson64]

As a Chinese Singaporean, I love and appreciate American culture through its Hollywood movies, pop and rock music, comics, video games, Levi's jeans, fast food, etc. But when me and my friends look at China's attempts at soft power, we usually find it laughable because unlike Japanese soft power which has its own unique identity to differentiate itself from American soft power, China is always copying and imitating others without any sense of creativity and originality, especially with its songs and movies (Wolf Warrior is a blatant ripoff of Rambo, Born to Fly is a ripoff of Top Gun: Maverick, most Chinese songs I listened to the radio are Chinese versions of old Western songs during my childhood, etc.). Not to mention the success of Top Gun: Maverick proves people want movies that are non-political, whereas most Chinese films to this day always have some sort of Pro-Chinese and Anti-West propaganda message behind it, which turns off many young generation moviegoers.

[@junyin5950]

An imitation? Are you kidding me? Five thousand years of Chinese culture has radiated throughout Asia, and even Korea and Japan as you know are products of Chinese culture. American culture is a baby in front of Chinese culture. China has been the most powerful country on earth for thousands of years, only weakness in recent decades makes you think China is weak?

[@亚呗]

战狼抄袭第一滴血？电影不能拍个人英雄主义？拍了就是抄袭？煞笔玩意😂

[@dinglshingle]

i fairly believe that China doesnt put its soft power abroad at very high priority. They focus on keeping their own people nationalistic which in their terms means "loyalty to the party". I have lived close to ten years in china now and experienced that alot. So China, or the ccp rather, is building their soft power on the basis of ethnicity which isn't very welcoming for other ethnic groups. this is the reason why they havent shipped many successful cultural products abroad unlike japan for example, because under the influence of the ccp many products do lose appeal since there are also political factors clearly behind it. or they dont appeal simply because those chinese made products lack authenticity for being simple copycats. China has competed with the west mainly in forms of productivity and price, but i could not see them come close in terms of originality. And theres also a reason for that: original products are too risky to try in China. Most companies are working on tight profit margins and Chinas industry is still seen more as one that provides parts instead of the end product. this is also one of the reasons i dont see them topple the west, their gdp growth is coupled with the trade deals they receive from giants like usa, theres no way in 100 years that this role would switch, at least not on a large scale

[@玉佳瓏]

All I can say is that you're smart, and you know what Westerners like to hear, but because you're so smart, you're sexually dysfunctional, and you're a eunuch, and your brain is smart and your body shrinks.

[@李荣-n7s]

@@dinglshingle i agree china's soft power is not good in "English world". reason is simple: just google"china" . you will find 99% is negative information and many of them just lie.. no one can build soft power in such Hostile Environment. just like USA can't build soft power in North Korea china has many original products. such as huawei------west: evil company.. ban it and kidnapped huawei CEO's daughter... tiktok------west:evil app ban it DJI-------west:evil company too ban it one belt one road------west: evil plan . just as evil as we colony the world china's system------west:evil system. no one person one vote to choose president...so evil genshin impact------west: hasn't say anything about that .maybe because that don't play video games bala bala bala so it's not china don't has original products. its the west don't admit that china has them... but don't admit ≠ don't exist it cause a problem: the west will learn nothing from china. but china will learn everything better from the west...it will make china better and better. fast than west. in future. china will way ahead of west..and west don't even know why?

[@ddwkc]

They were actually doing just fine when they were quiet. However, they started spilling Han nationalism and poked every one at once. The problem both Chinese nationals and the elite are insufferable at the moment. Some mainland Chinese folks have to cosplay as Koreans or Taiwaneses to be perceived more positively.

[@Vanalovan]

One thing I appreciate about China’s entry into global soft power competition is that it highlights how difficult managing global influence is. American foreign policy and its institutions come with nearly 70 years of being the premier power on the world stage and even with that experience learning is slow and painful. The Chinese diplomats are what you get from starting at square one

[@recoil53]

I could not believe they stuck their head into the Middle East. And this is at a time when the US doesn't need the Middle East anymore - the Europeans need it for the Suez canal, LNG, and crude oil. Which means with the properly spiteful US president, when the next conflict happens - and it will in spite of current rapprochement - China can be left to sort it out.

[@freneticness6927]

Also the us had the support from a huge amount of global powers which china really doesnt have. They have russia which is the only major power which supports them. Of the major powers of ww2 they have one ally against germany, japan, france, usa, uk and the commonwealth. The relationship of any of the brics countries are worse than almost all of the worst relationships between nato countries.

[@joshjansen86]

COVID has to be #1 here...such a dramatic, global issue that started in their country and they were completely silent until it was far to late.

[@brettparnell8254]

Yep. I was in China in 2019. After COVID, the Hong Kong protests, and especially the fact that the National Security Law technically applies to everyone in the world, I'll never go back. Also as a Canadian, I or anyone else could have been Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor

[@domenico_ginny6164]

They def purged the documents about it.

[@jaychung1380]

Actually they were doing great for a long time until Xi Jinping came along.

[@me0101001000]

And Xi effectively shut down the factions that lifted China out of poverty. If you're curious, read more about the factions led by Jiang Zimin and Hu Jintao, in case you don't know about the details.

[@me0101001000]

@@mangonel I'm aware, hence why I said "factions" not "faction". Both did quite a lot to boost Chinese growth. And it seems that Xi is throwing it all out the window.

[@mohammedkumar3733]

it's entertaining to see this jealous China haters channel fueling some ridiculous stories about China which aren't even close to reality. 🤣🤣🤣 If mainland China is so unpopular - hated by many , then why would there be millions of foreigners living, working, studying and touring every province each year? 🤣🤣🤣 Do you hear any travel advisories warning about human rights abuse in China ?!? 👇👇👇 Why China can grow year on year if there are situations of rampant and horrific rights violations there? Or China is so different from others..?? Then China is magic!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@GrammarNaziAUS]

​@@me0101001000I'm not too aware of these Chinese factions, but Xi comes from an intellectual background as an engineer, so it's kinda surprising that he's doing so poorly, when engineers, on average, are fairly intelligent. The fact one made it to the top position in the country should only mean an even greater intelligence, but I guess not.

[@hikashia.halfiah3582]

@@GrammarNaziAUS I'm not sure about that. There are smart engineers, but fairly significant crackpots are Engineers too. Many of them are both arrogant and think that they know "real world" while being careless. OceanGate is one prominent exmple. In my experience, the most intelligent while still being humble are mathematicians.

[@technetium9653]

It cannot be understated how bad wolf warrior diplomacy has been for foreign relations, makes me question wauld the domestic effects be worth it

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER NUMBER ONE🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@jacob4920]

Xi Jinping is "Chairman Mao Part Deux." None of us should be surprised by China's baffling slide back to "the good old days" (which were really the bad old days, but that of course gets covered up in China). This is all about "Chairman Xi." He is literally erasing what progress China had made, worldwide, in the decades leading up to his term in power.

[@pierrecurie]

Ya, it completely negated all the soft power investments (eg 2008 olympics) of the past decade. That was a huge self own.

[@KwaserIGuess]

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[@HandsomeSquidward-q7g]

I spoke with a Chinese friend about this very same issue, and his most poignant response was:/ "In China, we have a saying: Your international policy is determined by your internal national policy." And after living in China for five years and seeing what an utterly corrupt and brutal shitshow the latter is, the CCP's mind-boggling incompetence at establishing and maintaining foreign relations start to make a lot of sense. The Chinese government lives in this cancerous bubble of murder, threats, bribery and skullduggery that would make the worst excesses of Washington seem tame in comparison. Then they go out into the world, waving all their 90s and 2000s explosive growth money around thinking they can do whatever they want, thinking most people operate exactly like them. Their hypocritical doublespeak (yes, I know all governments do this, but the CCP has achieved quantum-god levels of skill in this regard) and actions, ie. "We're a peace-loving country but we're also engaging in the largest military build-up in history and like to harass and threaten all of our ASEAN neighbours", only drives this point home further.

[@shawn.champagne]

China is real jealous of Japan and South Korea's soft power as well. The influence of anime and k-pop in the west just makes us love those countries.

[@JackSmith-qy3df]

并不会，我们也喜欢日本的动漫，樱花，韩国的韩剧和女团，我们只会喜欢，不会嫉妒

[@helloworld5334]

No we are not, they are vassal states of US, who would jealous of them.. lol

[@leooh3966]

@@JackSmith-qy3df 中国政府

[@sriharshacv7760]

Not just Europe and East Asia. India has a reason to worry too. They attacked our borders in the 2020s (even those areas where we didn't have an active conflict). That is the reason India's government is trying to decouple from China despite the pressure from reselling merchants.

[@kevinu.k.7042]

Given the extensiveness of Tofu manufacturing and building in China I do have to wonder to what degree they have a tofu-dreg military as well After all, the Russian military has turned out to be as reliable and effective as a Trabant. As for soft power, China's loans to other nations are coming to be seen as 'traps' economically subjugating the incepted nation. The Belt and Road is looking like being a loss maker and all the sweet soft power words in the world to not cover up China's cruel and oppressive behaviour toward it's own people, it's use of illegally subsidised trade on the world markets and it's sabre rattling over Taiwan. China's Tofu-Dreg Soft Power. I do hope that one day the Chinese people break free of the oppressive CCP with all of the attendant corruption.

[@heychrisfox]

I think the easiest answer is to say China's military is pretty awful. There's definitely not as much corruption in their military, compared to Russia. But they're completed untested in actual warfare. Their last military engagement was 1979, when they invaded Vietnam, and they got completely destroyed. In modern times, they have a lot of high tech military hardware, and a lot of manpower to rely on. But it takes a lot of skill to operate a military like theirs on a grand scale, and it's very easy to make a huge blunder and ruin an entire campaign.

[@kevinu.k.7042]

@@heychrisfox Good observations. I would add that one specialist analyst of China's military pointed out that they don't do many multi discipline exercises (army air navy) and the different disciplines have their own communications systems and can't talk to each other in the field. Lastly that their exercises are pre-planned like a scripted play, no surprises and no need to responding to unplanned changes. If true things are not so great. Having said that were there ever to be a war with China the death tolls for all would be horrific. It must be avoided.

[@leoliu5017]

CCP is awful. While with 98 million members and even more family ties, considering it's economy achievements in past I don't see CCP will collapse in the near future.

[@junyin5950]

Europeans and Americans have been saying for decades that China is weak. But China is getting stronger and stronger. If you think the Chinese military is weak, why doesn't the US go to war with China? Why is your country afraid to go to war with China, why not try it

[@chrislee5685]

​@@leoliu5017 What a crooked view you say yourself about their achievement yet you still say they are awful. To be honest I can't find any better gov in modern era. Now country either side with US be Yesman nation or against US and get label as evil and got sanction to suffer. China gov the only one that built up country from dirt poor to be able to resist US aggressive demand and sanction. Can't found fault on it.

[@DavidRexGlenn]

Nothing that China produces gives the impression "That's the place where all my dreams will come true."

[@Western_Decline]

Perhaps that is more a function of the level of brainwash you've experienced.

[@peacechan4500]

Well their current best product is a gambling game with anime esthetics

[@justinrald3318]

Unironically the biggest Chinese soft power that really well liked in the West and other countries right now is Genshin Impact, video game inspired by Zelda from Japan

[@Maitreya-7777]

But they have shifted their offices to Singapore. To build trust among west and democratic nations. Hoyoverse company ever heard of?

[@tomlxyz]

A video game doesn't really give a country soft power tho

[@phoenix5054]

Never played it but uninstalling it now. I don't want any Chinese app on my phone.

[@filipe5722]

I heard of it, but I actually thought it was Japanese. 😅

[@jnliewmichael4235]

​@@phoenix5054 Sir, if you never planned to play it, why would it be installed in the first place?! This is such a weird ass virtue signalling attempt...

[@DK-ue5ks]

South korea and Japan are soft power, power houses. Everyone wants to visit because of kpop and anime. They are viewed favorably around the world.

[@THE_joshbeoulve]

Ones thing that hasn't been brought up in the video is the behavior of China's tourists. Chinese tourists are synonymous with barbarism abroad and are deeply unpopular "guests" - if you could call them that.

[@LizardSpork]

Because authoritarian regimes can not stand criticism of any kind and the ability to accept constructive criticism or even unfair criticism without overreaction is the sign of a mature nation. Who would want to be real friends to be a country that will suddenly turn on you because some comments made by an independent organization.

[@kkpenney444]

The US will take all that criticism and say, yep, you've got a point.

[@1verstapp]

i think their wolf wanker 'diplomacy' could be a contributing factor...

[@me0101001000]

And a pretty significant one as well.

[@GrammarNaziAUS]

​@@me0101001000It's not even unique. It's just brinksmanship. The only "unique" thing about it is their attempts at colonising an ocean, with their man-made islands in the South China Sea, but that's about it.

[@saiganesh7502]

actually that is where you westerners are wrong. It is true china doesn't have a good reputation in developed western countries. However, china has a very good reputation and an awesome image among the 3rd world in places such as Africa, Latin America and poor parts of Asia. These are places that have suffered a lot of damage from European colonialism and American imperialism. Hence when china comes to help build their country, especially after being terribly exploited by the white man, they love china. Many Africans, Middle easterners and Latinos see china as their heroes rescuing them from the cruel White people.

[@赵国震]

You forget the most important thing, Japan and Korea are semi-colonies of the US, they both have US troops stationed there, while China has always been treated as an enemy, China's network is not connected to the world, and the US European discourse does its best to discredit China. For example economic issues。1990. The Economist. China's economy has come to a halt. 1996. The Economist. China's economy will face a hard landing 1998. The Economist: China's economy entering a dangerous period of sluggish growth. 1999. Bank of Canada: Likelihood of a hard landing for the Chinese economy. 2000. Chicago Tribune: China currency move nails hard landing risk coffin. 2001. Wilbanks, Smith & Thomas: A hard landing in China. 2002. Westchester University: China Anxiously Seeks a Soft Economic Landing 2003. KWR International: How to find a soft landing if China.. 2004. The Economist: The great fall of China? 2005. Nouriel Roubini: The Risk of a Hard Landing in China 2006. International Economy: Can China Achieve a Soft Landing? 2007. TIME: Is China's Economy Overheating? Can China avoid a hard landing? 2008. Forbes: Hard Landing In China? 2009. Fortune: China's hard landing. China must find a way to recover. 2010. Nouriel Roubini: Hard landing coming in China. 2011. Business Insider: A Chinese 2012. American Interest: Dismal Economic News from China: A Hard Landing 2013. Zero Hedge: A Hard Landing In China 2014. CNBC: A hard landing in China. 2015. Forbes: Congratulations, You Got Yourself A Chinese Hard Landing.. 2016. The Economist: Hard landing looms for China 2017. National Interest: Is China's Economy Going To Crash? 2020. Economics Explained: The Scary Solution to the Chinese Debt Crisis 2021. Global Economics: Has China's Downfall Started? 2022. Cathie Wood: China's COLLAPSE Is FAR Worse Than You Think 2022. Business Basics: China's Economic Crisis, GDP is Crashing, Protests Everywhere. China's financial crisis is Here.

[@thematthew761]

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[@jedi10101]

don't forget its unilateral 9 dash line & repeated bullying of PH fisherfolk, PH coast guard, PH navy inside PH's EEZ.

[@Emilechen]

9 dash lines is first drawn by the Republic of China, now located in Taiwan,

[@jedi10101]

@@Emilechen & therefore what? is taiwan bullying PH fisherfolk, PH coast guar, PH navy inside PH's EEZ? no. only ccp goons under xi jin poop is doing that.

[@cendora7576]

@@Emilechen you're basically saying they're doing taiwan's job

[@Emilechen]

@@cendora7576 kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6KxcmqNjJiMfKc Communist China is more pragmatic than Taiwan, since China has alreday settled all border problems with Russia, Mongolia and all stans, this is why China and these countries can create together the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, China could have repeated the same path, making a deal with Vietnam or Philippines, but the situation becomes complicated as long as the US get involved, the US are not thereq to help the peaceful negotiation, but yo help one against the other, so without US intervention, China and Russia can resolved bordet problem, China manges to reconcilie Saudi Arabia and Iran, but once the US are there, no peace is possible,

[@cendora7576]

@@Emilechen China's deal with Central Asian countries has already made Russia nervous. That, considering Russia is supposedly their 'strongest ally'. The Central Asian region were sometimes referred as "Russia's backyard" due to their massive influence on the region and its strategic position for Russia's southern reach (bridged further with Iran and India to the Indian Ocean). To see China's growing influence with infrastructure projects, loans and other forms of investments is "unacceptable" for them. That, and many other reasons is why Russia brought India to SCO, BRICS and other related organizations and summits, specifically to tone down their influence there. China is continually in hot waters with their "nine dash line" claim (inherited from old ROC, now Taiwan) in Southeast Asia, particularly in Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia. The recently released Barbie movie is banned in Vietnam exactly due to their portrayal of this (the existence of the "line" in the "Asia" portion of a drawn world map on one particular scene). Saudi Arabia and Iran's recent diplomatic mending works, strangely in other form, in favor for the US since that there will be less obligation for them to station their military in the region. Military units that is better stationed elsewhere, example being Southeast Asia. Russia couldn't solve their border issue with Ukraine, and their recent actions there has, against their intent, reinvigorated NATO from the descending road to irrelevancy. Coupled with their Wolf Warrior diplomacy and, even further, with Covid and its surrounding issues (like the Zero Covid policy), its no wonder why countries sought US help for, ironically, peace.

[@TheMetalfreak360]

When it comes to the Confucius institutes. In my country, people living close to it didn't even know it was a thing. But it seems people are more and more aware of it, even after moving it here I live, people were still a bit in an uproar that the government let it be a thing at all. I think especially after Russia and Ukraine, the west in general want to be less reliant on totalitarian nations that can use their reliance on them as a weapon. This is the case with China after Russia invaded Ukraine imo.

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER NUMBER ONE🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@Western_Decline]

Enjoy having the US dictate your foreign policy. Being a vassal state to the most aggressive empire in human history will suit your nation's interests well. Be sure to say yes to any and all of the US's future wars.

[@aoeu256]

Dunno the west is totalitarian but in different ways from China. The approval rate of the government is low, and often government work for the interests of the moneyed class. China’s gov has high approval rate comparatively.

[@TheMetalfreak360]

@@aoeu256 Simple question, can Chinese citizen criticise China's government?

[@2goober4u]

​@@aoeu256 they have high aproval rates becuase if you dont approve of them you get arrested on the spot xD

[@shermiecoin]

Does Europe have softpower? I think we only have 3 worldwide accepted softpowers: 1. Hollywood for USA 2. Anime/Manga for Japan 3. Kpop/K-wave for South Korea

[@nesseihtgnay9419]

America's soft power is unrivaled, from entertainment to technologies and even food.

[@davidthompson4383]

I'd put Britain's above it. American speaks the English language. So it'll always just feed back into Britain's soft power.

[@davidthompson4383]

@@danieltaylor1345 Half of Hollywood are Brits nowadays. Same with the music industry, both countries are completely intertwined. US literature is based off of English literature and so on etc. Yes the US has it's own sub cultures, but ultimately it's foundations are imported from the British and it is an Anglo Saxon dominion.

[@2goober4u]

​@@davidthompson4383 no i speak american becuase my veins flow with freedom sauce

[@davidthompson4383]

@@2goober4u More evidence the American education system is failing. Americans became less free post 1776 and especially today.

[@BonVoyage861]

Western Europe has the ultimate soft power. Unless you live in the mountains the world is mostly a copy of Western Europe at this point.

[@raoplns]

I think people see, appreciate and accept soft power of a nation when that nation is open and transparent and honest. CCP did just the opposite in case of China. It is no wonder most people can't trust China and so its soft power doesn't work, due to lack of trust. On the top, China is not good in communication, marketing and branding. Which explains why they make products for so many brands but they don't have their own brands.

[@hochifeen]

Honestly, as far as the Confucius Institute goes, I did Chinese Studies in my first year in university in 2007/8 and on the Cultural side of the course, I didn't notice too many issues. Half of that module was taught by Chinese lecturers, and ok, maybe they were a little reticent on some topics, but they weren't exactly glorifying the CCP. The other half was taught by a lecturer who was superb, a Westerner who had studied to PhD level in several Britain's best universities. He was also attached to the history department, where I subsequently took other courses of his. Certainly not afraid to be critical. I can see the scope for issues, totally, but that wasn't my experience.

[@cacapichi8564]

I’m from Latin America and I’ve thought about this for quite a while. We kind of appreciate China, and like that they give us an alternative to the West and the US when it comes to financing and trade. We welcome the great power competition, as it gives us more leverage and makes us less dependent on the whims of the US. When they give us loans, at the most they’ll want a port or something. When the west gives out loans, they want the whole country. Yet, despite the fact that China gives out a better deal, we are not loving China at all. I’ve known a couple of people who’ve gone to China to study and do business, but they always come back after 2-3 years. If you’re a business owner, going to China somewhat regularly is a must. But nobody seriously thinks of moving to China for good, or thinks that China is “cool”. If you say, we should emulate China, you’d be laughed out of the room. Chinese culture consumption is almost nonexistent. We know that their internal politics are very authority and that puts us off. China seems very close minded and different to us. We know that they are a very different, so they’ll never be in my view the cultural closeness that we have with the US and Europe. We are very cordial with them, and they are with us. But, ultimately, they are kind of like from a different planet 😅

[@domenico_ginny6164]

What Latin America country are you from?

[@cacapichi8564]

@@domenico_ginny6164 from Chile

[@derrickthewhite1]

I'd say the biggest problem China has with soft power is their inability to keep their hard power away from it. Hollywood and the US Government have at best an on-again-off-again relationship. They publicly disagree all the time, and the soft power apparatus has actively worked against the hard power apparatus during multiple wars. But that gives US soft power a lot more credibility, because it can disavow any action of the hard power and maintain credibility. This makes the nation stronger as long as the two are not actively working against each other. Which, as a side note, the US government doesn't control US soft power. It makes deals with it, which means that its really a geopolitical force separate on its own.

[@Christmas12]

It takes years and decades- every spy thriller or movie or tv show that involves the CIA agents being portrayed as the good guys thwarting evil bad guys is one more layer of whitewashing over the historical fact that the CIA are a criminal organisation - so it takes years of patience

[@Samson373]

China generous -- on what planet?! When it comes to charitable giving, China often ranks near the very bottom among the world's 145 countries. For example, from 2015 to 2018 China's rank ranged from a high of #138 to a low of #144. In contrast, the US very often ranks #1 and rarely ranks below the top 5 givers. Bear in mind that these rankings do not depend on how wealthy a country is, which is why Kenya ranked #2 in 2021 and 2022.

[@LukeTremblay-mo4lf]

Who made those rankings, last year they ranked the US as the No.1 in eight aspects of COVID-19.

[@domenico_ginny6164]

I think Kenya gave their goat to a someone in the US who had a mass die off of live stock on their farm. Like dude we appreciate it but you need all you can get. Such kind souls

[@spookyghostwriter3110]

Some day, China should check on the coffin of Deng Xiaoping. Forget just rolling in his grave. He’s doing Olympics level gymnastics in his grave.

[@imadabbadi9665]

China does not tickle the world's imagination, unlike the US which has THE AMERICAN DREAM. Also the language barrier : Chinese is not as easy to learn as English. China has tried to remedy to these things by exporting its movie industry and promoting Confucius language centers across the world, but to very little effect. The disciple challenged the master... and lost.

[@k.umquat8604]

English is definitely not very easy to learn. But nor is Chinese...

[@junyin5950]

It's so funny. Those who have invaded other countries and expanded their colonies for hundreds of years say that China, which has never invaded other countries, is weakening. That's Westerners, Americans, Europeans and Americans. Two little brothers from the United States, Canada and Australia, and two dogs from the United States, Japan and South Korea. If you think China is weak, why not try to go to war with China? It makes no sense to fantasize about China's weakness on the Internet. And India. India has border disputes with all of its neighbors. Do Indian women have democracy?

[@deretti347]

​@@k.umquat8604English is way easier than Chinese except if your first language is from Asia

[@k.umquat8604]

@@deretti347 My first language is from Asia.. but it's from West Asia. Still,I'd prefer English because it uses the Latin alphabet,like my own native language.

[@deretti347]

@@k.umquat8604 I expressed it badly, if your first language uses the Latin Alphabet english is way easier to learn than Chinese

[@jwil4286]

I wonder how much PRC actually cares about soft power. As their own founder once said, “Power comes from the barrel of a gun.”

[@dexinwang7192]

Lost in translation. It is “political regime comes from…”

[@pervezbhan1708]

China's perceived shortcomings in soft power can be attributed to several factors: Lack of Cultural Appeal: China's traditional culture and values, although rich and influential in its own right, have struggled to resonate with global audiences. The Chinese government's strict control over media and limited cultural exchange has hindered the international appreciation and understanding of Chinese arts, literature, and philosophy. In comparison, Western cultural products, such as Hollywood movies, American music, and literature, have had a more significant global impact. Media Control and Censorship: China maintains tight control over its media and restricts the flow of information both domestically and internationally. The Great Firewall, a sophisticated system of internet censorship, limits access to foreign websites and social media platforms, preventing the free flow of information and ideas. The Chinese government's heavy-handed approach to media control has been seen as a hindrance to fostering an open and transparent image. Human Rights Concerns: China's human rights record, particularly regarding issues such as freedom of expression, political dissent, and minority rights, has drawn international criticism. Events like the Tiananmen Square protests, the suppression of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, and the crackdown on pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong have tarnished China's reputation and undermined its soft power efforts. Propaganda Perception: China's attempts to influence international opinion through state-sponsored media outlets, such as Xinhua News Agency and China Global Television Network (CGTN), have been met with skepticism. These outlets are seen by many as propaganda tools rather than impartial sources of news and information. This perception has further undermined China's credibility and its ability to shape global narratives. Geopolitical Concerns: China's rising influence and assertiveness in international affairs have generated apprehension among other countries, leading to skepticism and resistance to Chinese soft power initiatives. Countries often view China's efforts as attempts to expand its influence and shape narratives in ways that may not align with their own national interests. Diplomatic Missteps: China's foreign policy approach has sometimes been perceived as overly aggressive or lacking in diplomacy. Instances of economic coercion, territorial disputes, and assertive rhetoric have strained China's relations with other countries and dampened its soft power appeal. It's important to note that soft power is a complex and multifaceted concept, and China's soft power influence is not entirely absent. China has made significant investments in infrastructure projects in developing countries through initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative, which has helped improve its image in some regions. Additionally, China's economic clout and technological advancements have garnered attention and admiration in certain sectors. However, the aforementioned factors contribute to the perception that China has not been as successful in projecting soft power on a global scale compared to other countries.

[@1ctinus483]

bro used ChatGPT for a youtube comment 🤔

[@Supermariocrosser]

Political system isn't the sole problem. China needs less historical legitimacy mentality and make better diplomacy with those being popular

[@avery4149]

Soft power to me is always like those passive buffs you get in video games, it stays with you for a long time until you get another one. Hard power is the one-time BFG round that runs out of ammo in 1 or 2 shot, deal massive damage, but that's it. For China, their hard power doesn't really work because there isn't enough passive buffs to reinforce or multiply the power of that BFG round. Their J-20 although shows that they are capable to building 5th Gen fighters, ultimately falters because they are stereotypically known to cut corners. Their economy may surpass the US, but their citizen filmed themselves living in close-to poverty condition or even if their hard earned money were able to afford them an newly built apartment, it is already falling apart before they even move in. The two things that I can guarantee everyone knows about China is 1. A country that existed for a long time. 2. World's factory. I have never been to the US and are always wary of their foreign policies, but at least I know who Obama is, what McDonalds are, and that the US Marines are bunch of badass (at least according to their soft power projection.)

[@Western_Decline]

The two nations are in different stages of development, but the gap is closing. Chinese have been open minded to learning about the rest of the world. On the other hand, it's clear Americans feel there is nothing worth learning about China. Racial superiority is deeply embedded in the western mind. China is a closed society with an open mind. The US is an open society with a closed mind.

[@blackjacktrial]

China might have an open mind, but it's leader does not. An intolerance to difference is the problem - everything must proceed according to the plan.

[@junyin5950]

It's so funny. Those who have invaded other countries and expanded their colonies for hundreds of years say that China, which has never invaded other countries, is weakening. That's Westerners, Americans, Europeans and Americans. Two little brothers from the United States, Canada and Australia, and two dogs from the United States, Japan and South Korea. If you think China is weak, why not try to go to war with China? It makes no sense to fantasize about China's weakness on the Internet. And India. India has border disputes with all of its neighbors. Do Indian women have democracy?

[@peacechan4500]

​@@Western_Declineif you guys are open minded. Please topple Xi. The guy is antithesis of open minded

[@cassandrawasright1481]

I can't imagine the West will ever be particularly favorable towards China while they're in competition---and I think China knows this, too, which is why they've focused more on developing countries when attempting to project soft power. If you asked people in China what they thought of us "decadent Westerners," you'd probably get the impression that America's soft power wasn't working very well, either.

[@Civman-yr8lb]

The West isn't competing with China. China's economy is tanking, their population is in a terminal decline and climate change is making China increasingly hard to live in. As it's always been, China will buckle and collapse. Xi could be dead from an aneurysm tomorrow and they would be completely out of their depth. Chinese people love the West. They flock here in massive numbers.

[@autarchprinceps]

The EU & USA have had literal trade wars, because they too are in competition, yet that didn't make the people actually hate each other. As a matter of fact, when it comes to the types of industry each country is good at, a mostly manufacturing economy may be more complementary to the mostly services based western economies, than the clear competition between multiple economies of the same types. The fact that the West is united regardless is prove this isn't a big thing. Probably being a certified arsehole in- and outside of your country as a matter of official policy and a horrible repressive dictatorship with little modern cultural values to portrait outwards, has something to do with. Ancient history is only worth so much. The rest are "values" the west actively opposes, so more a case of damage control or creating strife in your opponent, than actual cultural conversion. That's why China's "soft power" are debt traps, bot farms and illegal secret police stations in other countries, and not a lot of generally decent movies. If you look at other countries, that are dictatorships too and very clearly competition, but not agressive arseholes, you can see that the perception is very different. Singapore for example.

[@dekumutant]

That's just not true though. You can absolutely be in competition with a country they people admire from a soft power perspective. Your average person doesn't give a fuck about what deal the CCP broke or who's waters they're encroaching on anywhere near as much of the general social vibe a countries culture attracts.

[@indiasuperclean6969]

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[@oldskoolmusicnostalgia]

@@autarchprinceps "The EU & USA have had literal trade wars, because they too are in competition, yet that didn't make the people actually hate each other" Did you miss the segment of the video showing highly unfavourable perceptions of the USA among its European and Asia-Pacific allies? Though it does seem to me that it was when Trump was in power. "We do a slightly better job than China at being liked" isn't exactly the most compelling argument one can make.

[@prw56]

I feel like you've confused what all is considered soft power, I mean reputation is a big part, but I usually see potentially coercive means grouped into soft power. China has damaged their soft power (and their ability to grow it) by damaging their reputation, but the larger part of their soft power comes from things they can leverage (or attempt to leverage) to influence other countries.

[@fehzorz]

They are terrible at soft power but they have plenty of hard power and can use it for grey zone activity/hybrid warfare. It isn't soft power to harass fishermen in disputed waters or do cyber attacks

[@recoil53]

No, any form of coercement is hard power. Holding unpaid debt over the head of other countries, the Debt Trap, is hard power.

[@karlmarxii1898]

Although the world is diversifying now many things are still made in China, so China still has much soft economic power. They can immediately boycott any Western imports or decide to restrict exports and the world would feel the effects.

[@karlmarxii1898]

​@@recoil53Well economic exports and imports are soft power, and China still has considerable influence in the global economy. They could choose to wreck the global economy at any moment by suddenly banning all Western goods from being imported. Many Western companies who profit off of selling to China would immediately see huge losses if not bankruptcy as they struggle to find new buyers. China won't be hurt as much if they decide to seal their economy off because they're self sufficient in basic goods. Sure they'll start to lag behind in technology but at least the country will still function since everything is state owned or state influenced. Whereas in the West companies that profited off of selling to China would cause chaos as they lose their profits immediately.

[@recoil53]

@@karlmarxii1898 They are self sufficient in goods, but lack the spending power That is why Xi's desperate plan to bolster his economy by becoming more of a consumer society is a pipe dream. Xi would have to deal with massive societal unrest if he tried to have a closed economy. He his also trying to get a lot of foreign investment, while Chinese with any options are investing outside of China.

[@wumpyjumps]

I'm not sure if there are any inaccuracies in this video but I've seen some small mess-ups recently and I'm certainly noticing that a lot of videos keep having editing problems. In this one, there is a bit at 7:48 where the template is left in, and the transition at 5:06 goes all over the place. You might want to consider if you are overstretching your output and need to deal with editing more.

[@Xukaiwen2]

As an American who has lived in China and India, I'd say India is much better at soft power because it has enough artistic and cultural freedom to allow for a genuine and thriving culture. Bollywood is how you "resist" American hegemony, not more tanks. The difference in the strength of Indian culture to China's culture is incredible. China is all about the Communist party, family, and money. There is nothing else. How do you resist the allure of Hollywood or Bollywood on the heart and soul with the communist party and money? Fear. China's artists and thinkers are so restricted that their culture ends up being limited. Smaller East Asian powers, like South Korea and Japan, have much more cultural influence than China for this reason.

[@HenryHoang-x]

Yup, look at "the Untamed", it was wildy popular in China and was getting popular abroad but the government banned the production of the series.

[@joicy3308]

​@@HenryHoang-x I think you're talking about "addicted" series. But yeah, china really did banned the main leads of both series from meeting each other irl

[@junyin5950]

It's so funny. Those who have invaded other countries and expanded their colonies for hundreds of years say that China, which has never invaded other countries, is weakening. That's Westerners, Americans, Europeans and Americans. Two little brothers from the United States, Canada and Australia, and two dogs from the United States, Japan and South Korea. If you think China is weak, why not try to go to war with China? It makes no sense to fantasize about China's weakness on the Internet. And India. India has border disputes with all of its neighbors. Do Indian women have democracy?

[@burnsyy9119]

God I hope bollywood doesn't become the flagbearer of indian culture. That shit is nothing close to indian culture.

[@BenSalernoMedia]

China's governmental structure greatly limits the avenues it can take to pursue soft power. Soft power is a popularity contest, and it's typically won by popular culture. It requires free and open exchange of art and media, and the freedom to produce genuine cultural product in the first place. Japan has that, Korea has that, the US, UK, all of these democracies with some semblance of free speech and free expression are just overflowing with creative cultural export that everyone else around the world enjoys, raising the favorability of the source country. What does China have? What CAN it have? Genshin Impact?

[@AlexRodriguez-gb9ez]

What about all those vietsub Chinese songs，and look at the Chinese drama and donghua list and see how much they have grown over the few past years. The Chinese music industry used to be not even top 10, but it grow like 30% per year and surpassed Korea in money. It takes 20-30 years to cultivate music talent, so 10 more years and they can even surpass the Japanese music industry which they support by consuming and producing Japanese music in secret.

[@JohnnieHougaardNielsen]

The reputation of China is also harmed by issues like producing and exporting products of bad quality, including breaking rules on poisonous materials. Or forcing unfair conditions on foreign companies to compete in China, while taking advantage of "western" countries being more open. Not to speak of "onesided" handling of copyright/patent issues. Belching carbon dioxide while literally painting mountains with green color is also a pretty bad look. Gross pollution of air, ground and water. And plundering remote places for fish and sand. And so on.....

[@Emilechen]

the best civilian drones are made by DJL, but some Westerners dont knows its is a Chinese brand, the US train are so poor in quality comparing to Chinese high speed train, but they still pretend than American train could be more "expensive", China has the ability to defend ita national interest, not becomes a economical colony and vassal of the US, such is the biggest sin of China, China is also the biggest renewalble energy producer in yhe World, finally US CO2 emissiom per capita is much more higher than China, kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKbKo3ermsqqZ7M

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER NUMBER ONE🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗

[@JohnnieHougaardNielsen]

@momanasideka3962 I never said that *everything* manufactured in China is bad quality, but products not living up to safety norms (like toys dangerous to children) is happening again and again. Or search for "tofu-dreg" construction projects. Or baby formula with melanin (toxic) to fake protein content testing. I remember buying a batch of sensors from China, 40% of them just did not work.

[@Emilechen]

@momanasideka3962 Apple is not a Chinese brand, but Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Oneplus, ZTE.. are Chinese brands, Lenovo, TCL, Haier, Hisense, DJL, BYD are all chinese brands, buy how many Americans and Britishes know they are Chinese brands?

[@BigmanDogs]

Hasn't their soft power drive worked if their approval in the global south is growing?

[@XSpImmaLion]

So, in summary: The more your country passes an image of respecting human rights, the better it is at "soft power".

[@Christmas12]

haha in a nutshell, it helps, I'd say it helps even more though if you have something people need and can't go without- like look at Saudi Arabia (they don't respect human rights) but we seem to give them a free pass because the world wants their oil so badly - and similarly with India, Modi is basically a despot and that country is getting worse under him by the day but we give it a pass because the USA desperately needs them in the mix to counter China for their own power plays

[@weben_vergebens]

it’s worth noting that the utility of soft power is pretty heavily contested within the scholarship. it could very well be that the CCP just doesn’t see very much strategic value in it. i’m also not sure if i’d count the belt and road initiative as soft power - gaining leverage over the infrastructure of some of the fastest developing economies in the world definitely seems more like hard power.

[@recoil53]

Debt trap is definitely hard power.

[@junyin5950]

It's so funny. Those who have invaded other countries and expanded their colonies for hundreds of years say that China, which has never invaded other countries, is weakening. That's Westerners, Americans, Europeans and Americans. Two little brothers from the United States, Canada and Australia, and two dogs from the United States, Japan and South Korea. If you think China is weak, why not try to go to war with China? It makes no sense to fantasize about China's weakness on the Internet. And India. India has border disputes with all of its neighbors. Do Indian women have democracy?

[@leavesinautumn5959]

You can dislike American politics/policies yet still consume American culture and use American products, without issue. There's little overlap between the two. Not so with China, the regime there is all pervasive. Because it's linked itself (along with it's objectives) to its soft power efforts, you cannot accept one and reject the other. As a result, those who opposes these objectives or object to the CCP itself in some way, oppose Chinese soft power almost reflexively.

[@AlexRodriguez-gb9ez]

I'm pretty sure Chinese dramas and donghuas aren't created by the central government... Its easy for the West to say that China lacks soft power since they can't really understand Chinese shows, many of the best shows are very recent, have trouble empathizing with Asian looking characters in real-life shows, but shouldn't you look at southeast asians, they like chinese stuff way more than the west does even Vietnam that normally hates China. Look up the top dramas on douban, a lot of them are very recent, look up cosplay in Vietnam or Thailand or Indonesia and if you look like a third or a half of the characters come from Chinese products. The growth is exponential so I can see a future 8 years from now where only a third of the characters are japanese and two thirds are chinese.

[@leavesinautumn5959]

@@AlexRodriguez-gb9ez The Chinese entertainment industry won't replace the Japanese entertainment industry in those countries or the world at large for reasons I've already stated. Were the issue Asian actors then the Hong Kong movie industry and the S.Korean entertainment industry would not have been as successful as they've been. I did not claim the regime directly makes entertainment (they do on occasion, but usually only for the domestic audience), I said they have significant influence and link it to their agenda's and I stand by that statement. You can't honestly (I emphasize honestly) claim otherwise. If they don't approve it, it won't be screened, if they strongly disapprove, there are unpleasant consequences for all involved.

[@jcliu]

Ironically, the most recent peak for Chinese soft power might have been when China was the most closed and tumultuous country on earth: In 1968, radicals in Berkeley, Paris, Berlin were all sporting Mao’s Little Red Book. In this case, familiarity probably bred contempt/indifference-especially as China was entering at the bottom of the global value chain.

[@rorytribbet6424]

When your entire purpose is to avenge your “century of humiliation” by taking over the world and turning it into your authoritarian playground, the vibes tend to be less than good

[@KUZCOCRO]

A very important leverage the USA and most countries have over China in terms of building global soft power is the language. The Chinese language isn't spoken almost anywhere else except in China, it is difficult to learn and honestly - it is really strange. The same cannot be said for English.

[@Ozhull]

It's also a completely ugly sounding language.

[@TheGoldenDonuttt]

@@Ozhull really? Certain English accent sounds absolutely awful too. like backward country inbreeding awful

[@zoey5104]

It's spoken widely in Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan.

[@jmnapigkit]

⁠​⁠@@zoey5104Even singapore, malaysia and taiwan speaks english.

[@zoey5104]

Ironically, in 1990s to early 2000s, Hongkong and Taiwanese movies and music used to be pretty popular in Asian countries, basically promote Mandarin/Cantonese media much better than China, a country 50 times bigger than Taiwan

[@Cunnysmythe]

America as a whole started to put out negative PR about itself during the Trump presidency, that's a big part of why opinions of it slumped

[@kth6736]

Invasions of iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Lybia.

[@kkpenney444]

No, it was trump.

[@kth6736]

I am sure trump didn't cause death to america rallies in my country starting from 2003. 😂😂

[@domenico_ginny6164]

Yeah and our idiots are about to elect him again. Sorry in advance not just to you but the world 🌎

[@FarisAl-Said]

4:09 with graphs on perception of china. It would be interesting to see how many developing countries see china, rather than just focusing on G7 nations and their close allies

[@psychedelicpirate3355]

Yeah, I said the same thing.

[@raggedcritical]

6:05 It did.

[@FarisAl-Said]

@@raggedcriticalthey are acting as if china’s soft power policies are failing worldwide, however the only place that it is not gaining momentum is in the west. Furthermore, “America is still winning the soft power war against china” is just flat out wrong, nearly everyone has a negative view of the u.s. nowadays compared to china

[@thebestevertherewas]

​@@FarisAl-SaidNations like Vietnam, India, phillipeans, don't have positive opinion on China And these nations are some of the fastest growing economies now

[@赵国震]

You forget the most important thing, Japan and Korea are semi-colonies of the US, they both have US troops stationed there, while China has always been treated as an enemy, China's network is not connected to the world, and the US European discourse does its best to discredit China. For example economic issues。1990. The Economist. China's economy has come to a halt. 1996. The Economist. China's economy will face a hard landing 1998. The Economist: China's economy entering a dangerous period of sluggish growth. 1999. Bank of Canada: Likelihood of a hard landing for the Chinese economy. 2000. Chicago Tribune: China currency move nails hard landing risk coffin. 2001. Wilbanks, Smith & Thomas: A hard landing in China. 2002. Westchester University: China Anxiously Seeks a Soft Economic Landing 2003. KWR International: How to find a soft landing if China.. 2004. The Economist: The great fall of China? 2005. Nouriel Roubini: The Risk of a Hard Landing in China 2006. International Economy: Can China Achieve a Soft Landing? 2007. TIME: Is China's Economy Overheating? Can China avoid a hard landing? 2008. Forbes: Hard Landing In China? 2009. Fortune: China's hard landing. China must find a way to recover. 2010. Nouriel Roubini: Hard landing coming in China. 2011. Business Insider: A Chinese 2012. American Interest: Dismal Economic News from China: A Hard Landing 2013. Zero Hedge: A Hard Landing In China 2014. CNBC: A hard landing in China. 2015. Forbes: Congratulations, You Got Yourself A Chinese Hard Landing.. 2016. The Economist: Hard landing looms for China 2017. National Interest: Is China's Economy Going To Crash? 2020. Economics Explained: The Scary Solution to the Chinese Debt Crisis 2021. Global Economics: Has China's Downfall Started? 2022. Cathie Wood: China's COLLAPSE Is FAR Worse Than You Think 2022. Business Basics: China's Economic Crisis, GDP is Crashing, Protests Everywhere. China's financial crisis is Here.

[@MalloonTarka]

In short, because they tend to demand rather than negotiate, with threats of force, and even offers of aid and cooperation are very clearly just methods of getting abhold on you in order to better do the first thing.

[@BS-rm1hv]

The poll doesn't cover any developing country. Your generalization is quite problematic. Polling a country like Brazil or Senegal would have been interesting because the developing world is the focus of their influence policy.

[@Will.i.am55555]

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[@exp8all]

From Canada's perspective, the hostage diplomacy of the two Michael's sour the relationship pretty heavily.

[@kth6736]

Not that much. Trudeau was still inviting ccp army to train with canadian army in canadian mountains so the chinese could fight better against India.

[@exp8all]

@@kth6736 When I say sour relationship, I meant it from a general average Canadian citizen perspective and impression of China.

[@baikeiast5255]

Canada should focus more on the native that you all slaughter

[@msdolly6101981]

​@@kth6736: that Justin guy is the real threat to Canada

[@karlmarxii1898]

​@@kth6736What kind of lies are you spewing. I get that you hate Trudeau but the Canadian Army would never agree to such a deal. Not would the Canadian public. That is simply untrue. Canada stands with the West.

[@Patrick462]

One aspect to remember is that China's soft power efforts are mostly driven by their government. On the other hand, America's soft power is (at least somewhat) more organic. Is this good or bad? Does it matter? You can decide.

[@anubizz3]

Which one? Music video that more like porn? School shooting? This gender study crap?

[@aoeu256]

Well China is poor so they have focused on building infrastructure rather than culture, today there are lots of donghua, dramas, and stuff like genshin impact. they aren’t directed by the central government.

[@kopitah7620]

@@aoeu256 Chinese donghua, dramas, and genshin are censored and heavily monitored by central government. Any slight different, be ready to get banned

[@alexsbarricades8218]

Thanks for going over this today. However, I think you shouldn't have brushed over the countries in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East like that because thats where China's PR seems to be working. Maybe you can explain that in another video?

[@indiasuperclean6969]

SIR MY INDIA IS THE REAL SUPERPOWER NUMBER ONE🤗🇮🇳 WE HAVE THE BEST INFRASTRUCTURE AND HIGHSPEED RAIL 🤗🇮🇳 MEANWHILE IN CHINA PEOPLE STILL RIDE RICKSHAW EVERYWHERE AND THEY ALSO POOR DONT HAVE CAR . THIS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🇮🇳🤗 , WE NEVER SCAM! WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳

[@joaquinescotoaleman4320]

I am from Latin America, CCP's PR works with Goverments, not with the people, people here in Latin America, they really don't like Chinese influence at all, they blame China for Covid, and that wound is still fresh, after all Latin America was the region with most Covid deaths per capita in the world. In the other hand, the US soft power is huge, and unlike Europe, Trump was actually quite popular in some countries, also other countries have amazing soft power like Japan (specially for Millennials) and South Korea (specially for Gen Z) so people look China through the glasses of China's enemies and clearly they don't like it. In the other hand, China is worried that many goverments are saying they will not paid their debt to China, in particular Ecuador, so China is thinking twice in wasting money in the region.

[@francisquebachmann7375]

Problem with China is they lacked humility and compromise for the sake of good relation and peace.

[@mightymagnus]

I think in Sweden it was the previous ambassador (Gui Congyou) trying by being aggressive/threatening to gain respect which of course had the opposite effect (probably more than anything other). But maybe Gui just followed the stupid "wolf warrior diplomacy"

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

To the Philippines, no way anyone here would view those damn Commies positively after what happened in 2012 and beyond...

[@Jolbotti]

What happened?

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

duterte was very fond of them though.

[@francisquebachmann7375]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 That's only Duterte, He's been going to a certain cancer hospital in China, which might have been a deal between him and the ccp in exchange for selling the country out. Good thing the current president have a better balance between US and China, although I think the current admin leans more to US right now.

[@baikeiast5255]

Ohhhh philippines love their white master how slave adore their master

[@HenryHoang-x]

@@Jolbotti Chinese patrol ships have sunk numerous fishing vessels from South East Asian countries like Philippines and Vietnam since then, kiling hundreds and wounding thousands of fishermen.

[@yugiohonline26]

I mean when you have the monopoly on all media platforms, military bases on each continent, and the ability to bankrupt any country by labeling them as "regressive." You can stop all influence any other nation pose. If Japan wasn't on the West's good side we will be saying the same about Japan.

[@hamlet557]

1. USA has apple. Putin's minister was using Apple, which speaks volumes how trustworthy american companies are. 2. American media openly criticize USA, make fun of it etc. That keeps me (a non american) sage that my freedom of speech is respected. 3. China on the other hand, with their "citizen points" has shown the worst kind of lack of freedom I can ever imagine.

[@malct6545]

Because they are challenging the established power. So that power wants to make them look like the bad guys when in fact what's already in place is a 100x worse, but we are used to it so it's normal to us, but it's not normal at all, far from it

[@RaiDonalds757]

I hate how China always get memed and hated, while at stupid K-pop fans chant “Korea rules China sucksssssss, kimchi is ours! There is no such thing as Pao Cai!!!!” I feel like I’m against everyone-

[@Paul-nn9oj]

Soft Power is the only power China should have been investing in. Since WW2 ended, No countries have sought to invade China. Defence spending has been unnecessary "Offense" spending which could have enriched its people. Instead CCP projected military power defending an ideology which empoverished the people at home, as well as in North Korea & Vietnam. As soon as the money started coming in, the CCP got greedy, ditched that ideology, and 'equal share for all' turned in to the worst form of capitalism -one without a social safety net. Despite China's massive spending on unnecessary offensive weapons, the global community still provides aid money to help the people out of poverty, Spend on people, not weapons, no-one was or is going to be physically invading you!

[@marshal_anon4522]

It also doesn't help that their diplomats being the most Tactless diplomats I've seen

[@CoreyANeal2000]

Well, think of their diplomats' background compared to other countries' diplomats. And how difficult it is to balance their interest compared to other countries. From their point of view it is hard balance Taiwan and other Countries. Also understanding which side most countries would take on those issues. It becomes almost impossible for their soft power to increase without a backlash because of their own interest.

[@CoreyANeal2000]

The same can be said of Russia and Ukraine. Russia has interest that are egregious to almost everyone. Making their soft power decrease significantly.

[@CoreyANeal2000]

Not to mention anyone getting involved has to balance knowing what China's interest are and Taiwan interest. Unless you can balance those interest. Your better of not getting involved.

[@JoseAlanGuerrero92]

In 2018 and 2019 (before covid) China did some good and popular overseas tv series (meteor garden, yanxi palace, the untamed) however is true that since then i don't know about any chinese film or series as popular overseas as those, at that time i thought the korean wave would be over, with instead a new ongoing chinese wave

[@shubashuba9209]

Part of what makes Chinese soft power weak is that their language is so much more difficult to learn and that makes their cultural exports less attractive. Even when it comes to international brand recognition, Chinese brands are basically unrecognizable unless they are in English.

[@ArmageddonIsHere]

An unwieldy language doesn't stop Japanese soft power....

[@Gigi-zr6hp]

@@ArmageddonIsHere Same with Korean softpower through kpop , kdrama and kfoods

[@henrysson3]

@@Gigi-zr6hp the language is relatively easy to pronounce

[@henrysson3]

@@ArmageddonIsHere Japanese is quite easy to pronounce and the japanese alphabat is super easy.

[@hectorrodriguez8467]

At 7.10 I agree with that statement. My friends usually get mad when I call them out that they should pay their own share of the meal when we go to dinner.

[@jameswalker7899]

Well expressed. Warmest compliments. :)

[@AlexanderSta]

Forgot to mention China flying balloons over the US 😂