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Clewza313 | 4 years ago

CCP is hilariously bad at PR, period. Their idea of pacifying unrest in Tibet is to put up a giant middle finger facing the Potala Palace and surround it with posters of Mao and Xi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Peaceful_Liber...

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arp242|4 years ago

Yet Tibet is still part of China, with no signs of that changing in the foreseeable future.

I don't think China is "bad at PR"; they just don't care what you or I think. In international relations it seems a small hindrance at best, and it sends a clear signal to both Chinese people and everyone else: "we just do what we want, just try and stop us".

Caring about PR is a property of democratic systems.

ctack|4 years ago

Which makes them bad at PR, no?

co2benzoate|4 years ago

Hard to tell. For example, if COVID came from the Wuhan lab, then I suppose we would say they've been brilliant at PR since they haven't really been seriously hounded over that.

mrfinn|4 years ago

Yes they suppressed any possible investigation by removing any possible proof and silencing every single witness, quite clever from them. But also a big reason why that doesn't went along is because that's not only a Chinese issue, at this point is quite public who hired those labs...