Kind of seems to me like all those accusations that livestreamers like Ishowspeed are being paid by the government and given a script to read, when I'm sure its confirmed the Chinese government is pretty hands off with these people.
[If this is true], I think the media, culture, tourism department has a lot to improve.
I think many people in the tourism, media department are very old-schoolers. Fresh minds needed in the age of information and soft power. Just look at official news sites like Xinhua etc., The design of that website is from 2005, I am pretty sure deepseek can build a web design better and more modern than whatever the hell they are using right now.
I know throughout China's rise, those in charge of the news media have always been considered the black sheep and sometimes for good reasons. But I do think dunking on them especially from overseas patriot groups is becoming a bit of a fetish, so much so they try to look for controversies where none exist.