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I suppose it could be a point about soft power, but at the end of the day Chinese soft power of actually collaborating with the global south as equal partners instead of treating them as your underlings is much more powerful than the "soft power" of people knowing your brands and actresses
Also, we're now increasingly seeing Chinese games, movies, and brands become popular even in the west. The US doesn't have anywhere near the monopoly they used to enjoy on soft power anymore.
i mean, most of geeks enjoy their genshin and sheeit
Also, I notice that open models from China are even starting to change the opinion in the tech crowd which has traditionally been extremely anti China. Tech people like being able to have ownership over their software, and Chinese companies are the only ones putting out top end models you can run locally.
we need to find our chinese stallman