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    From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 12 16:59:54 2024
    "For decades, the United States has promoted democracy around the globe.
    But amid mounting U.S.-Chinese competition, a question has arisen: is
    Beijing attempting to export its authoritarian political system in a
    similar way? No, says Chinese leader Xi Jinping. “We do not seek to ‘export’ a China model,” he told an assembly of world leaders in 2017, “nor do we want other countries to ‘copy’ our way of doing things.” It would be a mistake, however, to think that Beijing is not seeking to
    shape global opinion in favor of China’s political system. The Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to promote autocracy are simply not as
    explicit as the United States’ hard-sell efforts to export democracy; instead, the CCP is soft-selling autocracy.

    To that end, the party has invested heavily in public diplomacy and
    influence operations intended to make the global public more accepting
    of its nondemocratic political system. It has developed a far-reaching
    program of trainings, conferences, and workshops that teach CCP-style management of the press, the Internet, the military, and civil society
    to foreign political leaders. And despite a perception among some
    Western policymakers and academics that these efforts are tone deaf,
    China’s external influence operations are more sophisticated, effective,
    and likely to succeed over the long run than many in the West believe.
    They are aimed primarily at people in the developing world, where many
    see the so-called China model as effective at delivering what matters
    most to them: a path out of grinding poverty and into the global middle
    class.

    In the face of Beijing’s increasingly resonant foreign propaganda,
    Washington has failed to rise to the challenge. It has yet to adopt a
    coherent message about the merits of the U.S. political system. In
    contrast to China’s messaging, which is tightly focused on winning over audiences in the developing world, U.S. messaging is scattershot and
    less persuasive."

    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-soft-sell-autocracy-working

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  • From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 13 20:11:29 2024
    But of course, the question is why China selling its kind of system is
    working. In contrast, "AMERICAN DEMOCRACY CAN’T SELL ITSELF."

    Is it just a matter of has not sufficiently sold its successes in
    producing innovation and prosperity?

    It is certainly true the US has a lot of innovations which create a lot
    of wealth. Unfortunately, the rising tide has yet to lift all boats. The disparity between the have and the have not is now so great that it
    pushes many Americans into "death of despair."

    Why the question is "Why"?

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