Re: Somali pirates and Chinese navy
Its called Information Warfare, and militaries spend billions of dollars on it and PR every year.
It is very important for popular support, public image, recruiting rate, international support and future budget. It can change your current allies into enemies of tommorow. You cannot be careless with such a serious matter, as long as the country isn't too PC and bends over to blackmail or bullying.
In regards to doing too little, hope i do not become personal but have you got much hunting experience? A good hunter and or Sniper needs paitience. You can be waiting and brooding for days on end to hunt a single prey, whilst doing nothing at all. one can do too much and step on their own foot in such instances.
Look up Dafur. Look up Georgia. Sometimes the media will be paid and have political incentive to perform such acts of journalism, other times they just do it because it sells. Either way, its what the media wants to do and thats exactly what they have been doing.
Does it really matter what some media have to say with thier "opinions" if China send a ship to fight pirate and protect shipping of both it's own and international ships?
No, it doesn't, not even the sligtest, just do the right thing and let ppl say what ever they want, who cares?
If u really want to shut those biased media up, you can always leave your country without a military.
Some ppl just care too much, do too little.
Its called Information Warfare, and militaries spend billions of dollars on it and PR every year.
It is very important for popular support, public image, recruiting rate, international support and future budget. It can change your current allies into enemies of tommorow. You cannot be careless with such a serious matter, as long as the country isn't too PC and bends over to blackmail or bullying.
In regards to doing too little, hope i do not become personal but have you got much hunting experience? A good hunter and or Sniper needs paitience. You can be waiting and brooding for days on end to hunt a single prey, whilst doing nothing at all. one can do too much and step on their own foot in such instances.
That sounds a bit single-minded to me. China hasn't had peacekeeping deployments spun against it in various mainstream publications, so why would most people complain about joining in anti-piracy operations?
Look up Dafur. Look up Georgia. Sometimes the media will be paid and have political incentive to perform such acts of journalism, other times they just do it because it sells. Either way, its what the media wants to do and thats exactly what they have been doing.