Bear with me, on this boba liberal’s video.
She talks a bit about restriction, censorship, and standardization of exported media by the ebil CCP /s, but rather focuses it on its consequent dullness, on-the-nose approach and cheapening of its media products…
How would you respond to this, point by point? (Sorry if I may sound like I argue in bad-faith)
Additional thanks if you don’t rely too much on whataboutism (yes, we can apply the artificial-politics-imposed media label, associated with CPC, on U.S media, like G.I Joe and Rambo, some of them even funded by the Department of Defense)
What are the benefits of a strong soft power in the west though? I feel like a major advantage China enjoys is that America fundamentally cannot understand China’s successes. I mean, most Americans have no idea why China would be popular in Africa and South America to begin with and watch videos how China will fall in the next year and so on. This allows China to often seize the initiative for things like the Chip War, which most analysts believe is far too late for the United States to do anything about.
And even if Americans did have a more popular view of China, I feel like that would cause the government to be even more aggressive to them to prevent Americans from wondering things like why they have a lower life expectancy and stuff.
The benefits of soft power is that it exposes and humanizes another culture personally, and I feel that though China should continue on their hard power approach (limited military, strong economy), the cultural media exports should amount proportionally as well…