Chinese Soft Power and Media Discussion and Updates

siegecrossbow

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Look at me, I get to define beauty now, and all for the low low price of $42.
They need to investigate Hegseth’s wife’s connections to the SeeSeePee.

As with all Temu and Shein clothing, the customers don't look as good as advertised. Maybe Pete should trade up his wife for the one on the right.
He may not longer be able to perform following this incident…

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tamsen_ikard

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Maybe people were judging qipao too negatively when glazing hanfu...
Fun fact: those form hugging qipao is more of a ROC thing, Qing dynasty qipao are a lot more loose fitting.
Qipao is a western dress with some Chinese design touches. It was specifically designed for people who wanted to look western and cool and still have some Chinese cultural elements.
 

Serb

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According to the report's ranking on this, the U.S. is now in the top 5 worst perceived countries in the world alongside Israel (the worst), North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran.

There is not a single region in the world - including the Americas - where the U.S. is better perceived than China. Looking at individual countries, 76% of the 83 countries surveyed have a better perception of China, and most of the remaining 24% of countries that do lean towards the U.S. are really on the edge, more leaning neutral than true U.S. believers (Brazil being a good example of this).

From the map, there seems to only be 4 countries out there where the public remains genuine U.S. believers: Japan, South Korea, Israel, and Ukraine. That seems to be about it.

Even more stunning: the public in countries surveyed was also asked whether "the United States should have military bases in your country" and, there, the data is even clearer: it's a hard no for all 97 countries surveyed except for 4.

So much for the narrative that U.S. bases exist because countries "want" them there. If democracy means respecting the will of the people, then 93 out of 97 countries are telling the American military to get the hell out of their country.



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Most dramatic and fastest reduction of soft power of any major power in world history. Trump basically nuked the entire US soft power to near zero in less than two years, exactly at the moment when US hard power is not enough to defeat even the Houthis cleanly, let alone Iran. He rug-pulled the whole brand and cut down an already short lifespan completely. American “power” now looks like 17th- or 18th-century state-led, narrow piracy tactics (wherever they can) in the 21st century, which will be embodied by advanced supply chains dominated mostly by China.
 
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