Well it would be nice to see examples of the kinda of propaganda originating from China
China increases spending 500% to influence America
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm confused - are you saying it's propaganda to go against the wet market theory? Because the wet market theory is so childish - like saying the sun goes to sleep at night.
Propaganda doesn't necessarily always operate in the direction of the creators most obvious interests, there may be propaganda pushing multiple conflicting narratives all originating from the same source. Criticism of the wet market theory might be valid, but could very well be propaganda simply trying to muddy the waters.
That's the RT/Sputnik tactic: throw out dozens of absurd theories and see which ones catch attention/stick and then double down.
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#103The title is incredibly misleading. Previously, China State Run Media companies weren't required to register under FARA, new laws mean they have to. The amount of spending is the same, but the category is different. 50M of the 64M alone come purely from CCTV America.
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#104Trump starts "trade war" with China. Chinese virus matching weapons project funded by Fauci himself hits America. Only cure for said virus is destoy USA economy and all its freedoms. Hmmm
No no no. Fauci is working with Gates, the Reptilians, and the child molesting secret society pizza eaters to implant micro chips in people to convince them that birds are real.
You find that funny? I bet Mrs. Melinda Gates and their children don’t.
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#105Aside from their hard work & valuing education, how did China rise up in modern times to get all of this social, economic, & technological power? Recent history has some interesting twists & they have had many helping hands.
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#106They prob fund the race-baiting that separates American society by boundaries that pale in comparison to boundaries of economic status. Middle class people of all races have much more in common with each other in America, than compared to people of the same race but different economic statuses.
CCP wants to tear us apart, make our youth stupid, create plausible deniability during quick conflicts (like a blitzkrieg of Taiwan).
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#107Chinese propaganda is just so... Tone deaf. Give me a couple million dollars and a couple interns and I'm pretty sure I could do better than any of its existing organs. This isn't a particularly high bar: you could probably do better just by doing nothing.
A. You only notice it when it is done badly, not when it works. B. Repetition is everything. How many people watch RT and its wild mix of true stories (copy&pasted) and blatant propaganda and soak it up? Or vaccine conspiracies in mommy Facebook groups? Badly done propaganda repeated 1000x still works.
Could you link to examples of the copy-paste, blatant propaganda?
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
And half of the country thinks the Mueller report showed Trump was undeniably guilty. The truth is in between.
See here's this guy proving me right. These nitpickers are extremely easy to fool into doing the work of propaganda.
Have you considered that « Russians did it » is by itself propaganda?
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you think are examples of Chinese propaganda? If it was good, I don't think we'd be able to tell.
Tourism has always been a way of propaganda. Look into what are sold as the most attractive places to visit in a country. See that those places always sell a narrative as to why they're important for the country and unique in the world. The US tourism industry basically sells NYC, Disney, Las Vegas and LA. NYC's best-known landmark? The Statue of Liberty, selling a narrative of a country of industrious immigrants. Di…
China allows tourism, but I don’t think its present leadership considers it among the major ways to win hearts and minds. Restrictions on where foreigners are allowed to sleep at night remain in place, tourists are subject to the Great Firewall during their time in the country unless they know how to get around that, and some parts of the country that were quite open in the late 20th century and early millennium (Xinjiang, Tibet) are now much harder to access. Most of the post-Soviet countries hungry for tourism income and extension of soft power eventually lifted those kinds of hassles on visitors.
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#110I wonder what the equivalent US spend (to influence China) is?
Does Hollywood count? (which is also receiving cash injections lately from foreign companies)
It's probably asymmetric. A lot of US sources are simply blocked over there. Including major social networks.