"We expressed our condolences and willingness to provide emergency humanitarian help to the affected people according to the needs of the U.S. side," a spokesperson for Chinese government agency said.
If China sent aid, and US workers reieved it, all propaganda against China would forever fall flat. It's kinda like how an abusive spouse needs to control who you speak to in case someone manages to help you see and respond to the abuse in a healthy manner.
They'll always remember the time that they were given tons of lifesaving medical supplies by China and it'll come up whenever they hear that China is evil and using humanitarian aid to control people.
They'll be like "wait, no they didn't? They just gave us that stuff".
And everyone around them, their media, their "elected officials" will be telling them it was nothing but a ploy. I don't know. I'd bet you're right about the majority of them. But others who already had preconceived notions about cHiNa and its role on the world stage will just be aching for some mental gymnast to tell them why their original opinion of China is still the correct take.
That's not very materialist of you. If Chinese money helped rebuild an entire town and got people back in homes, those people would absolutely love the Chinese government forever.
The narrative might be that the shady yellow man is manipulating the masses, but it would fall flat against the material power of actually helping the masses.
Which is why they'll never allow this to happen. The propaganda only works of you deny the aid.
Fascist propaganda beats material aid through genocide and violence. They win by preventing improvements to material conditions and blaming the suffering that follows on racial subgroups or the very communists they prevented from providing aid.
I'm not saying they will, I'm just saying that material aid is the best way to fight against propaganda. No matter what they'll be targeted by the American hegemony, but actually providing aid and helping to rebuild a community will massively increase their support from that community.
Didn't Covid kinda disprove this? If the brain-worms are sufficiently advanced, they can absolutely trump material reality. In particular I'm thinking about the hundreds of thousands of people who know someone who died of COVID, and is still refusing to either get vaccinated or wear masks, or do literally anything to prevent themselves from becoming the next corpse on the pile.
The issue with COVID was lack of response. Because there was no material aid and good active education going on, it allowed more insidious fascist propaganda to slip in.
There wasn't a solid safety net, and tons of people lost their jobs.
Yeah, if someone only has a home because China helped them rebuild after a tornado it's gonna be hard to convince them that China is literally Nazi Germany.
This happened in Greece. I don't remember the specifics, I think China bailed out their debts or something and Greece vetoed an EU act against China after the fact
China totally renegotiated agreements for Greece when asked to. The initial deal was incredibly one sided and negotiated by morons used to dealing with the IMF. Yanis came in and told them it was unfair and they completely agreed to all his conditions without any pushback.
If China sent aid, and US workers reieved it, all propaganda against China would forever fall flat. It's kinda like how an abusive spouse needs to control who you speak to in case someone manages to help you see and respond to the abuse in a healthy manner.
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Those doctors and the people around them are now innoculated from propaganda
Are they though? I mean, I hope you're right, but never underestimate the depth to which brainworms are capable of burrowing.
They'll always remember the time that they were given tons of lifesaving medical supplies by China and it'll come up whenever they hear that China is evil and using humanitarian aid to control people.
They'll be like "wait, no they didn't? They just gave us that stuff".
And everyone around them, their media, their "elected officials" will be telling them it was nothing but a ploy. I don't know. I'd bet you're right about the majority of them. But others who already had preconceived notions about cHiNa and its role on the world stage will just be aching for some mental gymnast to tell them why their original opinion of China is still the correct take.
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That's not very materialist of you. If Chinese money helped rebuild an entire town and got people back in homes, those people would absolutely love the Chinese government forever.
The narrative might be that the shady yellow man is manipulating the masses, but it would fall flat against the material power of actually helping the masses.
Which is why they'll never allow this to happen. The propaganda only works of you deny the aid.
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Fascist propaganda beats material aid through genocide and violence. They win by preventing improvements to material conditions and blaming the suffering that follows on racial subgroups or the very communists they prevented from providing aid.
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Yes, but material aid will always trump propaganda. You can't eat or live in propaganda.
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I'm not saying they will, I'm just saying that material aid is the best way to fight against propaganda. No matter what they'll be targeted by the American hegemony, but actually providing aid and helping to rebuild a community will massively increase their support from that community.
Didn't Covid kinda disprove this? If the brain-worms are sufficiently advanced, they can absolutely trump material reality. In particular I'm thinking about the hundreds of thousands of people who know someone who died of COVID, and is still refusing to either get vaccinated or wear masks, or do literally anything to prevent themselves from becoming the next corpse on the pile.
The issue with COVID was lack of response. Because there was no material aid and good active education going on, it allowed more insidious fascist propaganda to slip in.
There wasn't a solid safety net, and tons of people lost their jobs.
Yeah, if someone only has a home because China helped them rebuild after a tornado it's gonna be hard to convince them that China is literally Nazi Germany.
This happened in Greece. I don't remember the specifics, I think China bailed out their debts or something and Greece vetoed an EU act against China after the fact
China totally renegotiated agreements for Greece when asked to. The initial deal was incredibly one sided and negotiated by morons used to dealing with the IMF. Yanis came in and told them it was unfair and they completely agreed to all his conditions without any pushback.