More thoughts on China:
In last 30 years, China has pumped enormous money in buying, cultivating and using media support. It worked from 90s to 2015s.
Then, to their utter surprise, the world changed. Social Media democratised opinions and information.
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The assets suddenly became ineffective. They could not control a democratised SM.
So in the last few years they have been hiring an army of bots.
The trouble with bots is they cannot engage. They cannot argue. They can only cut paste pre determined views and amplify them
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If you notice today, their completely rattled state mouth pieces are belting out laughably preachy sermons.
This is their natural weakness in the information age.
No understanding of SM, local language/english barriers.
What China fears most and betrays its weakness..
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is a growing global opinion against its industries and products. They could game manufacturing, logistics, pricing, policies. What they cannot game is this irrational boycott by global consumers.
Added to the Wuhan sentiment, this anti Chinese goods sentiment rattles them.
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The argument is NOT about how much financial damage a boycott can inflict on chinese industry. The argument IS that they have no answer to a growing Boycott China consumer movement across the world. When some Indians call for #BoycottChineseProducts, they set in motion..
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a global resonance from prople across the world who have seen Chinese products flood their markets.
China’s large ticket exports come from their Govt owned companies. Their consumer/industrial goods come from enterprises owned by CCP officials.
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This is the lot that is turning jittery. It does not means losses in any one financial year. It means a lot of their factories turning redundant.
They had seen the ghost town scams from the CCP adventures. (Pls google china ghost towns)
They fear ghost factories and rightly so.
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