Bear with me, on this boba liberal’s video.
She talks a bit about restriction, censorship, and standardization of exported media by the ebil CCP /s, but rather focuses it on its consequent dullness, on-the-nose approach and cheapening of its media products…
How would you respond to this, point by point? (Sorry if I may sound like I argue in bad-faith)
Additional thanks if you don’t rely too much on whataboutism (yes, we can apply the artificial-politics-imposed media label, associated with CPC, on U.S media, like G.I Joe and Rambo, some of them even funded by the Department of Defense)
China has actual soft power, in that they build infrastructure for other countries. People can point to a hospital or a highway and say “China helped us build that.” US only has meaningless distractions full of white people living lavishly (even “poor” families in US media are always stupidly wealthy compared to the average person in the global south). It works great on other western nations, but providing actual, tangible material benefits to a people goes a lot further than shoving Avengers 17: The Hulk Passes a Kidney Stone down their throats.
USSR did that. And whoop dee doo, would you look at that - near damn all former republics hate USSR, call it totalitarian oppression and simp for USA!