China is spending billions on soft power

Post by khc » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 5:54 PM UTC

Cuuugi wrote: post #9

ajross wrote: post #7

It's a digression (because honestly the fact that China markets itself is not hugely notable, nor "bad" or "good" no matter how effective or ineffective it might be), but: Toward the bottom of this article is a favorability chart of China in different nations. And there is a huge crater (like 37% to 5%) in Chinese support among the Japanese between 2011-2013. Other nationalities see a little blip, but nothing like th…

This is just one data point, and i am far from an expert in the area, but the Senkaku islands are controlled by China, and Japan thinks its theirs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku_Islands

Post by realusername » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 5:56 PM UTC

neves wrote: post #20

The difference between a communist and a capitalist society. With Hollywood, the USA profits billions to make the world love it. :-)

Post by mazerackham » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 5:56 PM UTC

yomly wrote: post #41

kitschshrine wrote: post #26

so China is - lead by a billionnaire dictator and son of veteran communist party member, who has shown to purge his enemies, jail innocents/reporters without trial, disappear others. He oppresses the will of hong kongers to self govern, and acts like a crybaby whenever Taiwan, a self-governing democracy, does anything political - controlled by a "congress" of billionnaires, who work together to exploit workers for pe…

Let's take a look at America: They spy on you, regardless of if you live in the country or not, committing global espionage[0][1] They do not observe human rights when imprisoning you [2][3] They are happy to bomb civilians using automated robots in the name of freedom and enlisting you to their brand of freedom[4] They are happy to arm terrorists then assassinate them when they are no longer relevant to their cause[…

Post by nneonneo » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 5:57 PM UTC

foldr wrote: post #36

david-given wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard it's a pretty straightforward language --- every syllable is a word in its own right, and multisyllable words are compound words[ * ]; and that the grammar is supposed to be really straightforward, at least for English speakers, with no inflection, SVO sentence order, limited tenses, and sentences made from gluing words together. Unfortunately every written tutorial I've found seems heavily focused around…

>every syllable is a word in its own right, and multisyllable words are compound words[ This is an artifact of the writing system. Mandarin Chinese has multisyllabic words in exactly the same way that e.g. English does. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3330

Post by kitschshrine » Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 5:59 PM UTC

yomly wrote: post #41

kitschshrine wrote: post #26

so China is - lead by a billionnaire dictator and son of veteran communist party member, who has shown to purge his enemies, jail innocents/reporters without trial, disappear others. He oppresses the will of hong kongers to self govern, and acts like a crybaby whenever Taiwan, a self-governing democracy, does anything political - controlled by a "congress" of billionnaires, who work together to exploit workers for pe…

Let's take a look at America: They spy on you, regardless of if you live in the country or not, committing global espionage[0][1] They do not observe human rights when imprisoning you [2][3] They are happy to bomb civilians using automated robots in the name of freedom and enlisting you to their brand of freedom[4] They are happy to arm terrorists then assassinate them when they are no longer relevant to their cause[…