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Bellum_Romanum

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Coalescence said:
Yeesh, what happened here? Anti-China propaganda blitz?
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Polling will always ebb and flow depending on the geopolitical tensions or attention of a particular country. If you look at the survey from 2017 the snapshot of support for and against China from those central Asian countries were favorable because the news cycle of that time was not yet heavily tilted to anti-China, especially the insidious attack of China allegedly committing genocide against Uyghurs, and other ethnic minorities from those countries that are predominantly Muslims and share ethnic lineage.

Fast forward to each successive years along with the all out push for the genocide narrative and then you add the "China virus/Wuhan virus" circa 2020 onwards this time affecting these countries economic lifelines then the inevitable drop of China's image is to be expected.

I don't know why anyone of us here would expect the all out information war against China by the collective west wouldn't affect the perception of people from these countries, not to mention that Covid-19 has been largely attributed and pushed heavily as coming from China especially with the Wuhan lab leak theory, and then prior to that was the insult that the virus came from Chinese people eating bats, selling exotic animals using the Wuhan wet market to push that narrative.

All of these negativity is narrative (propaganda) driven and not based on any factual data.

So what's China left to do in order for the current downward trend to stop is the question. But in my opinion China shouldn't change their approach dramatically and should stay the course in terms of their relationship building with those central Asian countries. As long as China continues to build, strengthen, protect the country (Chinese people) from the current geopolitical challenges and natural calamities outside perception will improve along the way. Besides, the majority of these central Asian people haven't been to China and have only seen China through what the media have chosen to portray (western led influenced media trained and operated by Western public NGO'S and George Soros led foundations)
 
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supersnoop

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Coalescence said:
Agreed, but the response shouldn't be reactive, tic for tat or for the sake of reacting, they should use it as an opportunity to advance their own interest instead. Since the US is slowly breaking and bending the international rules to their favor, China should do the same as well.

Like what I suggested before, they should start making it harder for US to enforce their sanctions by making the industry more opaque and make it difficult to protect their own business interest within China by making it harder for them to enforce or defend their patents and copyrights. These moves must not be announced and must be self-evident, like in previous cases with Lithuania, make the reaction unpredictable in order to sow doubt and uncertainty.
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The problem is that the US is more willing to act in a irrational manner. Imagine if China sanctioned GM. Half of GM's revenues would dry out and most likely doom the company. What would happen to Apple? App developers, pension funds, other investors, they would all take a massive hit if something were to happen. There was a WSJ headline that said the "US needs to show it is willing to go to nuclear war", this is the kind of thinking you are working against.
 
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Overbom

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Bellum_Romanum said:
Besides, the majority of these central Asian people haven't been to China and have only seen China through what the media have chosen to portray (western led influenced media trained and operated by Western public NGO'S and Georg
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Maybe naive, but I think that after the Chinese borders open, things might become better.

On the downside though, with the intensified Western attacks, we will also witness even more hostile propaganda against China which might affect Central Asia people.

I think China, via SCO, should push for a more standardized framework regarding the management of NGOs, media, journalism, payment to the above entities, intelligence sharing (by the Chinese side) to expose Western plots etc
 
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Overbom

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson agreed in principle Thursday on a defense cooperation pact as part of their efforts to realize a free and open Indo-Pacific, in a veiled counter to an increasingly assertive China.
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A reciprocal access agreement, when signed, would enable faster deployment of their troops and allow them to engage in joint training and disaster relief efforts. Japan recently signed a similar RAA with Australia.
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Kishida highly appreciated Britain's increased involvement in the Indo-Pacific region, and the two leaders expressed "strong concern" about unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the East and South China seas and "rapid but not transparent" military build-up and activities, the Japanese government said
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The broad agreement on defense cooperation with Japan apparently reflects Britain's tilt toward the Indo-Pacific.

An RAA, together with an acquisition and cross-serving agreement that enables nations to share ammunition and supplies, serves as the foundation to enhance security cooperation.
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