I think a big factor today is that living standards in the west are rapidly collapsing. This leads to loss of faith in the system, and by extension into regime propaganda. When people start realizing that their government is lying to them about everything, then it’s not a huge leap to start asking why China is being demonized so much.
The other side is that people don’t believe that there could ever be a government that people would approve of, just because ours is so consistently horrible.
I hope you’re right. I am probably just in a filter bubble on yt, but seeing organic content (i.e. not spooks) give this commentary about toronto contrasting with this commentary about China within such a short period (on a western platform!) seems to be a leading indicator that reality is catching up with media perception
I think a big factor today is that living standards in the west are rapidly collapsing. This leads to loss of faith in the system, and by extension into regime propaganda. When people start realizing that their government is lying to them about everything, then it’s not a huge leap to start asking why China is being demonized so much.
The other side is that people don’t believe that there could ever be a government that people would approve of, just because ours is so consistently horrible.
I definitely notice that, people have a hard time imagining that a government could function in a fundamentally different way.
I hope you’re right. I am probably just in a filter bubble on yt, but seeing organic content (i.e. not spooks) give this commentary about toronto contrasting with this commentary about China within such a short period (on a western platform!) seems to be a leading indicator that reality is catching up with media perception