Posted on 05/20/2016 8:49:39 AM PDT by kevin_in_so_cal
Are American diplomats trying to subvert the Chinese government by answering questions on how to set up a food truck in the U.S. or buy cheap Broadway tickets?
An online public outreach effort by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing was abruptly shut down this week in a case that analysts said highlights Beijing’s anxieties over “Western values” – as well as the suggestion that Washington may be a bit too skilled at soft power for its own good.
“The U.S. considers this as a cultural outreach or promoting cultural understanding,” he said. “But Beijing sees this, I think, as an act of hostility, to try to poison the minds of young Chinese with American ideas – kind of what Mao Zedong used to call the ‘sugar-coated bullets’ of capitalism.”
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Commies do not like comparisons that show their oppression and its horrible downsides. Freedoms are forbidden and suppressed....
‘“The U.S. considers this as a cultural outreach or promoting cultural understanding,” he said. “But Beijing sees this, I think, as an act of hostility, to try to poison the minds of young Chinese with...’
A concept liberals know, love and practice. Its ours alone to propagandize. Dont tread on our posessions.
>Commies do not like comparisons that show their oppression and its horrible downsides. Freedoms are forbidden and suppressed....
Commies? You can substitute just about anything and get the same ‘Yes’, nod: Democracies, Socialists, Communists, etc.
Sure as sh!t our ONCE Republic shouldn’t be casting stones.
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