this shows a simplistic and obtuse understanding of the attitudes of Europe and the US. As if there are no differences between Europe and America that we cannot leverage.
Those differences are being leveraged, as per the chart. But at the end of the day, there are more differences between China and the EU than the US and the EU, mainly, race. It is not realistic, especially post-Trump, to expect that white Europe will side with China over the US.
You said conversion is impossible and I gave a counter example. Come on, there are plenty of solutions if only time and money were spent on them.
Is this selective illiteracy? It seems you have completely ignored my response. Conversion is possible, but mostly with immersion. Yourr conservative students are immersed in a liberal college culture so conversion is likely. Americans will never be immersed in Chinese culture; they are immersed in a culture controlled by the US, made for them to hate China. It would be like your conservative kids being sent to a small personal college run by Steve Bannon. Do you think their parents would be concerned about them turning liberal then? Your counter-example is nonsense and rooted under completely different, opposite circumstances.
The US controls the rest of South America as a result of its active measures. Pretty strong proof of concept.
The US is coming from being the hegemon with all of its tools and even then, there are still cracks, still governments that resist it in South America. China is rising in a world conditioned and rewarded by the US to oppose China. Just like your example above, you failed to identify the differences in circumstance.
See, now you are doing it again. Diplomatic failure is self evident in how quickly Chinese tech is being expunged from Western aligned countries. Its China's loss.
You're assuming that your assumption is correct in order to prove it correct and that's false logic. As I said, that phenomenon is attributed to fear of American retaliation, real hard power, by these countries.
Nobody cares if a bunch of African microstates support China, what matters are a handful of big players. Focus on the high value targets.
The EU has moved closer to China in Trump's reign than every before, but at the end of the day, they are still anglo-saxon and if you waste your time wanting to kiss their behinds hoping they'll like you, well, then that will be your full time job. We Chinese prefer to innovate and raise ourselves building real power rather than lip service power.
Also, in pretty much all countries African and European, the views of China are improving with the younger generation:
