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I wonder sometimes if Western info-warfare strategy is shifting to “flooding the zone”, producing such an avalanche of dubious quality media on China that no accurate picture of successes can be easily accessed by the Western lay audiences
A Western “great firewall” may take on a quite different form to what we have seen in China in the last few decades for example, given the aesthetic concessions required to maintain illusions of liberalism in the popular consciousness
I expect some mixture of legalism, as we observe regarding proscribed organisations in the UK, and systematic covert as well as overt online misinformation
This doesn’t directly address your points on traditional medicine, but I certainly agree that it is a worthwhile topic
It’s been part of the strategy for a long time, and not just for China. Bourgeois media inundates people with baseless or highly distorted claims (often very time-consuming to disprove, and affects collective consciousness over time), and both social media sites and search engines promote this content while censoring reliable sources
that’s fair, but I would argue it is shifting into a higher gear as Western dominance fades, and that’s what I feel I am noticing
it’s definitely escalating