[rydre]

As a Muslim, I do not believe this. I still remember the Iraq war. No need to believe state media companies like BBC that never questioned the narrative in the "free" world. China will win hearts, propaganda will lose.

No major Muslim country says anything about China. Should make you question everything the mainstream "free" world narrative says about China.

Old boomer era propaganda wont work :D come up with something new lazy people.

[cmarschner]

The BBC is not a state media company. According to Wikipedia, “The BBC is a statutory corporation, independent from direct government intervention, with its activities being overseen from April 2017 by the BBC Board and regulated by Ofcom.”

This is clearly visible given that politicians keep arguing that it is biased towards the other side.

[dragonwriter]

> No need to believe state media companies like BBC that never questioned the narrative in the "free" world.

While not so much as, say, the Guardian, I remember the BBC questioning the US/UK government narrative, and indeed outright refuting it on a number of points. It's been quite a while, ISTR it was the BBC was one of the earlier (at least of the large number of news sources I was then following) carried the detailed breakdown of how the supposed WMD trailers were, and were known by both the British and American governments to be, systems for inflating and deploying weather balloons that had been sold to Iraq by the British government in the 1980s.

> China will win hearts, propaganda will lose.

The two statements are incompatible. You probably mean to replace the second with “Chinese propaganda will win.”

> No major Muslim country says anything about China

A lot of them are looking to China to counterbalance other regional threats, and others (notably Malaysia) have overtly expressed concern about China's actions towards the Uighurs but also explicitly said they can't take a stand on the issue because of the risk of provoking China.

> Should make you question everything the mainstream "free" world narrative says about China.

Why should the “free world” saying the same thing as Muslim countries that aren’t trying to seek Chinese support for geopolitical reasons, but louder because they aren't under meaningful immediate threat by China, make me question what they are saying?

[pdr2020]

You're right, it can't simply be because Muslim country ties to China are economically huge/vast... oh wait.