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Quote:Larchmonter445 on December 03, 2019 · at 11:04 am EST/EDT
I can’t speak for an Asian, or any Asian POV. I will say this about China operating in the West.
China always brings its culture and civilization with it. Far too few Chinese can take off those filters when dealing in the West or with Westerners.
So, it faces speed bumps in its progress of being understood.
Even with its Foreign Ministry, Global Times and Xinhua News replies and State Council White Papers, China has not modified its style or substance. CGTN, its cable and web news and information outlet does better, but it is far from the slick reptilian new media sourcing and counter-propaganda of the West. It is better than Russia’s, by far.
However, both Russia and China insist on the Truth, and this limits the “product”. The US, UK, Israel have absolute disregard for the Truth, so they do much better massaging minds with their messaging technologies.
For instance, take Xinjiang and the facts. The Chinese invited press from the world, diplomats and leaders of Muslim nations who went there to examine the situation. None of them saw the institutions as prisons, nor the education programs as anti-Muslim, Islamphobic. Yet, China has not gotten this result out to the Western audience.
Hong Kong developed into a hellhole because Beijing has had hands off the education and media situation the entire time since the turnover. Even Jack Ma/Alibaba owning SCMP newspaper-website altered nothing. Ma promised the content would not change, even though SCMP is virulently anti-Beijing. And anti-Beijing it remains.
Thus, the Chinese tie their hands behind their backs when dealing in the West (and Hong Kong is in the West, culturally). They are becoming a bit more assertive with FM statements. The relationship with Russia is teaching them that the West respects realpolitik power in any form, and they are beginning to use theirs, also.
The trade talks are a good arena to watch. And the Meng Wanzhou case in Canada is another. China has flexed its muscles in these two on-going crises. This is a good sign of progress.
I expect that with South China Sea, Taiwan and ultimately, Hong Kong, they will show great resolve.
However, those are in their sphere.
Huawei in the West is something to watch. Though a private corporation it is the gem of Chinese technology and the importance is critical. Read everything about Huawei and ZTE. This is the leading edge of the clash of the West against China. The US intends to destroy Huawei. The reason? The US tech companies cannot compete with the Chinese corporation, its private status, its endless source of young researchers coming from China, and the momentum that has been built from 3G to 4G to 5G and now into 6G research and development.
To move forward, the US must fold its tech corporations into a state controlled consortium. Singly, they have no interest in the capital expenditure of development. This is why the West’s 5G is Ericsson and Nokia, with no American corporation in the sector.
So, what the Chinese are doing correctly is defining the race ahead, to 2025, then to 2049. This terrifies the West and why the Indo-Pacific containment strategy is the last hope for the West.
China will out-STEM the West and have the AI, Quantum Computing and Communications, Robotics, Genetic and Space sciences they need to control its own future.
Almost 100% of Chinese students are returning from the West to work inside Chinese corporations. This dooms the West to a brain drain of enormous numbers.
China is building three new massive megalopolises: around Beijing, around Shanghai and the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau-Shenzhen. These developments will spur internal growth of science finance, technology and culture. Nowhere in the West is anything like this. Most of the West is still structured atop early 20th Century infrastructure. Comparably, the West is riding horses, the Chinese are in jet planes.