The main problem is that anti-PRC propaganda tailored towards the West relies on latent Sinophobia and Westerners not having cultural contact with Chinese people, which completely fell apart since Chinese people in XHS are so welcoming. Notice that anti-PRC propaganda is very different when it’s tailored towards the Chinese diaspora living in the West, and a lot of that propaganda doesn’t fall apart even if you have cultural contact with Chinese people. Basically, the West got really really lazy in their propaganda that’s aimed at their non-Chinese domestic population, which completely falls apart once you watch a single video that takes place in China.
There’s probably some savvy zoomer/millennial ghoul who’s desperately trying to argue that XHS should be kept open with some intricate plan on how to subtly spread US propaganda, but the technologically illiterate boomers in charge are going to completely shit on that plan after a massive blunder that they themselves had caused.
Very much agree, the cartoonish portrayals of China immediately fall apart as soon as people start interacting. I’m really optimistic that by the time they’ll actually put any kind of plan into action there will be a critical mass of Americans who’ve become inoculated. Something like half the population is on TikTok, even if 10% of these people end up checking out XHS that’s gonna completely change public opinion of China going forward.
The main problem is that anti-PRC propaganda tailored towards the West relies on latent Sinophobia and Westerners not having cultural contact with Chinese people, which completely fell apart since Chinese people in XHS are so welcoming. Notice that anti-PRC propaganda is very different when it’s tailored towards the Chinese diaspora living in the West, and a lot of that propaganda doesn’t fall apart even if you have cultural contact with Chinese people. Basically, the West got really really lazy in their propaganda that’s aimed at their non-Chinese domestic population, which completely falls apart once you watch a single video that takes place in China.
There’s probably some savvy zoomer/millennial ghoul who’s desperately trying to argue that XHS should be kept open with some intricate plan on how to subtly spread US propaganda, but the technologically illiterate boomers in charge are going to completely shit on that plan after a massive blunder that they themselves had caused.
Very much agree, the cartoonish portrayals of China immediately fall apart as soon as people start interacting. I’m really optimistic that by the time they’ll actually put any kind of plan into action there will be a critical mass of Americans who’ve become inoculated. Something like half the population is on TikTok, even if 10% of these people end up checking out XHS that’s gonna completely change public opinion of China going forward.