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[tamsen_ikard]

That is western softpower which some people here argue that chinese softpower isn't important

I don't think its soft power, its hard power, pure and raw hard power. US has 5-6 times higher GDP per capita than China. Entire US + EU combined has 60% of world GDP. The fact is these western countries are significantly wealthier than China. Then there is the overwhelming military dominance of US and the west for several centuries. Its no wonder stereotypes form.

Negative stereotypes about China and Asians will not change until China becomes atleast as wealthy as a western european country. Their total GDP should equal US + EU combined. And no, PPP per capita will not count when it comes to people's perception, it has to be nominal GDP.

 

[Temstar]

This does beg the question of what Chinese libs would do when China has unambiguously won — will they cling to the ideology that they’ve espoused for half their lives or flexibly leverage their proficiency in Chinese language to proselytize XJP Thought instead???

Public intellectuals complaining about the current state of the world is a classism thing that has thousands of years of history behind it, it's part of how they justify their existence to the common people. It's just historically the paragon they hold up is some mythical golden past in China's history. Ever since Opium War though they've had to change track and instead hold up foreign countries as the paragon.

When the time comes and China has unambiguously won, I bet they will just change tunes and go back to using idealized Chinese past dynasties again. You can already see attempts at this with that lady talking up Ming-dynasty and claiming they invented everything including steam engines.

 

[PeoplesPoster]

The most harmful player in Chinese history. There was absolutely no reason for China to try to bring this half-American by blood but full American by Upbringing and mindset as a Chinese player and give her a platform. They could have done without those 2 golds.

DId nothing but vindicate racist stereotypes about half-white kids as superior, put her on a pedastal and again embellish the white worship tendencies among Chinese and frankly embarass China on world stage.

Lol cry abt it

 

[TPenglake]

Just curious, are you white? You say you are from Sweden, but you sounds you are Chinese or Asian.

Probably diaspora just like the majority of posters on this site.

 

[doggydogdo]

I don't think its soft power, its hard power, pure and raw hard power. US has 5-6 times higher GDP per capita than China. Entire US + EU combined has 60% of world GDP. The fact is these western countries are significantly wealthier than China. Then there is the overwhelming military dominance of US and the west for several centuries. Its no wonder stereotypes form.

Negative stereotypes about China and Asians will not change until China becomes atleast as wealthy as a western european country. Their total GDP should equal US + EU combined. And no, PPP per capita will not count when it comes to people's perception, it has to be nominal GDP.

Hard power like industry, steel and electricity are all dominated by China. China per capita is more productive than Europe or America in manufacturing which is the real economy.

 

[_killuminati_]

Israel's employment of exploding pagers against Hezbollah is nothing new. However, what made the Israeli operation unique and noteworthy was its unprecedented scale.

IIRC, the Israelis began employing exploding cellular devices against soldiers and knights — fighting under the banner of the prophet — in the mid-1990s, if not earlier. TBF, Hezbollah got owned by Israel because they were incompetent and compromised. They absolutely should have known better.

In DoD lingo, such TTPs fall under special technical operations or STO: terminology and concepts that have been publicly known for decades.

Thanks for showing Jordan is as incompetent as Hezbollah (probably more) by displaying Israel's great concern for human life by blowing up civilian pagers in public.

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[_killuminati_]

This does beg the question of what Chinese libs would do when China has unambiguously won — will they cling to the ideology that they’ve espoused for half their lives or flexibly leverage their proficiency in Chinese language to proselytize XJP Thought instead???

Just as Temstar stated, they might do what the Persian libs do - wish for a return of the ancient Persian Empire. Or if they're crazy enough like the Hindutva, who believe nukes, airplanes and skyscrapers were invented in ancient India, they might invent a mythical former land like Akhand Bharat that is better than the current.

 

[enroger]

Ai Wei Wei learned applying his criticism on Israel-Palestine got him cancelled and ostracized in West. In West, only criticism of China allowed. Ai Wei Wei is a grifter who didn't learn his lane and now crawling back to China since West threw him under the bus.

I can at least respect his stance on Israel-Palestine, real grifter would just shut up about it or even support Israel. I don't agree with the man but I do respect consistency

 

[manqiangrexue]

Its harmful cause it promotes and vindicates lots of racist stereotypes that people around the world have, including Chinese themselves, about how Chinese are incapable of doing well in winter sports, how its her "white genes" allowed her to do so well. Its also about the craze about her promoting lots of brands and making money when pure Chinese player did not get the same level of support and crazy fandom that she got, only because of her mixed race identity.

She is a walking stereotype promoter and giving her a platform in China was harmful to China's self-image, Chinese players self-image.

Moreover, Chinese govt appearently ignored their own law about dual citizenship to allow her to play as Chinese. Which only makes seem desperate for gold at any cost, even if ignore their own laws. Lots of other Chinese-descent players did not get the same treatment and had to renounce their citizenship in order to play for China.

Finally, she showed no actual loyalty to China after the games ended. She openly flaunts her US citizenship and the special treatment she got from Chinese govt. She openly stays in US and gives no indication that she actually is a Chinese citizen going back to China out of patriotism. It shows that she played for China just for the money.

So, both Chinese govt and her seem greedy. Not what sports should be about. Overall, just a toxic and embarassing episode for China.

It is what it is. On the one hand, Eileen Gu represents a turning tide, that a half Chinese half American girl raised in America can choose to be Chinese when all we've seen is these people becoming American. She's high profile; her 2 gold medals ranked China above the US at the time (although some Russian doping issue brought the US back up to an equal 9 golds later) and not one American was happy about her choice or what it represented. America is the talent-sucking vampire of the world and that was its "Drago is cut" moment when China took someone who was supposed to be American away. That's got to be inspiration to a lot of Chinese and mixed Chinese people in the US especially those who are now disillusioned with America's recent descent into madness.

The only real bad thing is, and this is totally because China has not freed itself from the shackles of white worship yet, that after her performance, I've heard of Chinese people saying they want mixed babies like her. That's not her fault; that's on us. She didn't ask to half anything and she didn't tell Chinese people to make more people like herself. (But what if Chinese people made more mixed babies who idolized Eileen Gu and with China's rapid ascent on the global stage, all proudly proclaimed when they came of age that they're proudly Chinese, side fully with China and anyone who has a problem with that can just cry about it?) Eileen Gu was born into this world the way she is and by choosing to represent China instead of the US not once but twice (which exceeded my expectations since I thought she would represent the US the second time to call herself a global citizen), she really gave her best to us. That's a lot more than what a lot of Chinese people choose to give back. Can't blame her big picture, although you can nitpick her smaller life choices as being less than ideal for a Chinese idol. But you have to remember, she's only 22 this year, 18 when she won in Beijing, a beautiful young girl invited everywhere and tempted by every occasion, so it's a fairly big request to ask that she behave herself as a disciplined model member of Chinese society.

 

[TPenglake]

I could be wrong, since I don't have an X account. But you know what's one China talking point I've seen dissappear from online discourse entirely, or at least just very little of it? The notion that Made in China is a thing of the past and that Made in Vietnam or India is the future.

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During COVID and height of the first trade war that was all that people talked about. Today? Nothing.