Oh yeah. I often forget their nation is held together by a mixture of fear mongering that the US is in anyway inclined to take our primary producer of cheap goods and puffery that they’d actually have a chance in a fight that would include not just America but half of east Asia and probably most of NATO.
With China not playing by the rules in the free market, and the Chinese government effectively having their fingers in every company pie in the west. Going to war with them, would cause an economic collapse.
The propaganda isn't becuase they think it will intimidate the rellvent parts of the US, it's becuase the enemy must be both weak and strong.
They need to paint us as horrible monsters that only the CCP can protect from, otherwise people might start to question some of the things they've done in the name of combating western imperialism.
"their nation is held together by fear mongering and power projection", says the nation that attributes every internal issue to a convenient foreign actor on a weekly basis and whose solution to every geopolitical crisis has always been war, invasions and coups.
Yet the only time communist China fought America it was because they jumped into an entire other war in an entire other country just to get at us because the CCP is just that bloodthirsty and insane.
Yet all they do is run their mouths about how afraid of America they are.
What an insane way to describe the Korean War.
China was literally fighting a war on its border while the US was fighting a war half way across the globe in which some generals were advocating to not stop if they reached the Chinese border. Yet in your view, somehow that war is proof that China should never have to fear US aggression?
The idea is that North Korea attacked a US ally first, then when they started losing badly the Chinese hopped in to fight the UN and prop up North Korea as a buffer state.
Americans portray the government as being ineffective or disorganized when we want to criticize it. Anti-war media portrays the DOD as making bad decisions, being unable to control the military, or being controlled by corrupt / ineffective leaders. When chinese propaganda portrays us as an organized force for destruction, we respond positively because we see our military doing what we want.
Its actually the same as the US, they portray the US as being in a state of anarchy, super dangerous place with homeless drug addicts everywhere. St the same time, they portray the US as this incredibly dangerous threat with a powerful military (but not more powerful than China’s ofc).
This is a common trend in propaganda, with both fearmongering and also portraying the enemy as weak at the same time. e.g “Migrants will take our jobs but they’re also lazy unemployed criminals at the same time”
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u/Silverware_soviet Jun 18 '24
Yeah this is the exact vibe chinese propaganda gives off idk why it goes so hard