China puts targeted sanctions on the State of California and Pelosi's donor network. They mimic US language of oligarchs and foreign interference repeated ad nauseum by US media and government. They outline her financial interest in Taiwan and abuse of power to become wealthy during her political career. The PR campaign and heavy sanctions work to politically isolate her from allies and neuter her influence, she's left out to pasture to "Spend more time with her grandchildren" shortly after the election where Democrats get obliterated.
The stupid imperialistic gesture finally ends the reign of one of the worst neo-liberal ghouls of a generation and China stays winning.
hate to break it to you but the Chinese govt is not nearly as adept at PR/propaganda as the US
The US propaganda machine has been on the fritz since at least the Bush Admin. We're losing Latin America at a rapid pace. We're losing Europe. Even the fucking Turks, the Saudis, and Israelis are Going Their Own Way, wrt China and Russia. The US is no longer this mythologized shining beacon on a hill. If it were, we've slammed the door shut on even the most zealous pro-America migrants so we can't harbor a bunch of psycho self-hating ex-pats to re-injected into their home countries every generation.
The Dulles Brothers are dead. Pappa Bush is dead. Kissinger hasn't been anywhere near a lever of power in thirty years. The only people the US has left have all drunk their own kool-aid.
Meanwhile, look to the South Pacific. Look to Macau and Hong Kong. Look to the Korean Peninsula and Indonesia and Malyasia and the entire East African seaboard. China's propaganda machine is doing just fine, because China is doing just fine. They've got something to offer more valuable than empty promises and greedy failson CEOs. China is the future and everyone secretly knows it. That's the most powerful propaganda you can bring to bare.
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That's because China isn't really doing anything. They could probably create a huge foreign propaganda department out of thin air in less than a year if they wanted to, but right now their only propaganda asset is Chen Weihua.
The west never hears from China directly, they never even try to reach foreign audiences. They don't really care what the west thinks and therefore they're letting the US control the narrative entirely unfortunately.
Why would you roll in the mud with the :porky-happy:, when that's their natural habitat?
There's a little bit kicking around, like Li Jingjing.
Congress polls in the single digits, but the incumbency rate is typically over 90%. When push comes to shove, people vote for China with their wallets.
Past that, the US propaganda machine is having a more challenging time exiting the black hole of its own domestic politics. As we waffle from the doctrines of Bush to Obama to Trump to Biden, more and more of our long-term foreign policy is sold off for short-term partisan gains. AIPAC will step in to quash a sanctions bill against Russia because it might hurt Israeli businesses. Apple will kill anything that threatens their supply of electronics out of the Pacific Rim. Nancy will fly to Taiwan, raise a bunch of money, and make a bunch of promises that future Speaker McCarthy has no interest in keeping. Meanwhile, McConnell's wife's Taiwanese-based shipping company will fight any effort that threatens her family fortune.
US Propaganda doesn't work on any of these special interests. It only works to misdirect the accumulated anger and frustration of American domestics against one another. So Americans will grow increasingly hostile to Taiwanese ex-pats for "looking Chinese", while the US policy towards China is sandbagged by all the economic interests that profit from the relationship.
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Your mutual aid group just needs a bunch of friendly DC lobbyists behind it.
Their PR towards the "international community" doesnt matter since no population amongst them will in a meaningful capacity become friendly to them under the zeitgeist of immense concent manufacturing in the last few years and in the future. And it literally doesnt matter if it was good since there arent mediums for it to reach and resonate since the social and other media and press is fully controlled by the west
Towards the developing world and "non international community" their mutualy benefitial relations and positive material impact, their lack of interventionism and warmongering along with the widespread distrust for the west and US is and has been better than western style PR and propaganda cause its about tangible and material things. Billions of people and the population of the most of the world give zero shit about Xi or China "losing face" over this or will support them more or less in the Taiwan issue no matter how good they become in western style media propaganda. Most didnt know or give a shit about it happening
good point, i should have specified that i meant that the scenario outlined by the OP is unrealistic
i guess we agree you're just adding more context