Overseas Chinese Propaganda Fails

| April 27, 2020

Thai meme poking fun at Chinese Communist Party censorship. (twitter.com/hashtag/nnevvy)

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and Chinese “nationalists” were reminded recently that a global audience is different from their domestic one. In China, when the CCP pushes a narrative, arguing against it is risky. Dissenting posts get deleted, accounts get deleted, people get detained, etc.

So, CCP propaganda meets little to no open resistance within China. The CCP can propagandize at will. With restricted speech, Chinese citizens are not always “raked over the coals” like Westerners are… Denying most the opportunity to learn and improve on their geopolitical arguments.

In one instance, a group of Chinese netizens, potentially working for the CCP, engaged in a meme war against Thai memers. A popular Thia show’s actor made the mistake of liking a tweet mentioning Hongkong as a country.

Chinese “nationalist” citizens jumped over China’s firewall and attacked the actor. He apologized. They dug up more dirt on him.

However, his girlfriend made a post in the past, or liked one, referencing Taiwan as separate from China. A twitter hashtag movement began and the CCP trolls attacked her mercilessly. Big mistake.

The actor’s Thai fans jumped in and waged an all-out meme war against the CCP trolls. Result? The Chinese got lacerated. You could tell, by looking at the memes that the Thai members generated, that they were influenced by their Western counterparts. They had the assistance of others from Southeast Asia and even from the West.

The Chinese trolls eventually backed down. Then, other groups of Chinese netizens came out and tried to smooth things over. Like Western leftists, it appears that communists can’t meme. CNN posted about this here.

Propaganda fail: The Philippines

The Chinese Ambassador to Manila posted a video on YouTube. The ambassador’s intent was to show solidarity and unity between the Chinese and the Filipinos. Unfortunately, the video creators did not study the intended audience.

One theme in the video is that China and the Philippines are united by the sea. “One Sea”. They may be separated by land, but they are connected by the sea. Unfortunately, this reminded the Filipinos of China’s maritime claims that violated Filipino sovereignty.

So, instead of seeing the “unity” theme that the Chinese Ambassador attempted to portray, the Filipinos saw it as China reasserting its claim to the entire South China Sea. The video got downvoted by the majority that voted. If you read the comments section, the CCP gets hammered.

An explanation, in English, shows up towards the end of the video. You could tell that it fails as an information campaign. The explanation is an attempt to play China up as a “hero”.

Category: China

34 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Roh-Dog

In the Second Great Meme War the Taiwanese, Thais and the Kongers stomped a mud hole in that ass. China’s 50 cent army (read: political prisoner class) took a major ‘L’ just like the Left in 2016’s The Meme War to End All Meme Wars.

AW1Ed

It’s easy to preach in an echo chamber filled with bobble-heads. Selling the snake oil to free thinkers, not so much.

China is resorting to economic threats to countries aggressively investigating the origins of the coronavirus. This speaks volumes about their complicity in the pandemic.

Roh-Dog

“This speaks volumes about their complicity in the pandemic.”
Hell, f**king screams it from the rooftops, through a megaphone, on a international livestream.
They did it, everyone knows they did it, and they know everyone knows.
I hope the average citizen stings CCP members up on every lamppost, lining the streets from Great Wall to the sea.

5th/77th FA

Lars is lurking around TAH today thebesig. He will be here shortly with his empirical data showing that just because the Chinese Communist Party runs China does not mean that the Chinese Government is Communist…or something.

Hoozzah for the in her webz folks who have poked the Communist Chinese Government right in the meme. What with all the talk of the Chinese Communist Originated Virus Infecting Disease of 2019 (COVID19) in the news of late and due to repacking up some of my books I have re-reading some mid ’90s Clancy. Finished up Executive Orders last week and am working on The Bear and the Dragon. Odd how a supposed novel of “what if” is kinda mirroring the headlines of today. Only thing missing is the shooting war part.

Again, anyone thinking that the Chinese Communist Government doesn’t have world domination as their goal, I still have that ocean front property for sell…with a nice bridge leading to it. Odd how they don’t allow too many to worship a God, but they consider themselves as Gods. Red Mao’s Little Red Book. In the meantime. the broadcast TV Channel Grit TV is showing a boatload of classic Cowboy Motion Pictures.

Fjardeson

But it’s our job to make DAMN sure no-one pulls off a Rainbow Six (SHIVA). Those tree-hugger types are insane enough to try 🙂

5th/77th FA

^THIS^ And Gates and Bloomberg got enough USD to try it. I did “like” John Clark’s “Final Solution” to get them “Back to Nature.”

Had a tree hugging old hippie wanna be past girlfriend that approached me to catch on old times during a God Daughter’s Wedding about 3 weeks before 9/11 came down. I made mention that the next terror attack would probably be some idiots flying a plane into a building. She accused me of being a nut. 20 minutes after the FIRST plane hit, she was calling me, wanting to know how I knew.

No one will ever convince me that this flu bug was NOT a deliberate attack, just to see if it would work.

11B-Mailclerk

I still believe this was either the usual natural bug from China, or a lab screwup.

However, the observed quarantine of the outbreak area,

Except for international flights,

Suggests that someone may have wanted to make sure China was not alone in misery.

Commissar

By the way, Kim Jong Un released a message on state media;

https://youtu.be/U5zF7jU9CJY

So that should clear everything up. He is fine. /s

AW1Ed

Well I’m sold. North Korea is every bit as transparent and truthful as, say, China. His sister the Dragon Lady may stand down. For now, anyway.

The Other Whitey

She’s going back to the ol’ drawing board, as they say.

Green Thumb

Well then, lets party!

Are you buying the first round?

Mason

It must have been your thoughts and prayers.

Commissar

Exactly as effective as they always are.

SFC D

You saved the chubby little bastard.

The Other Whitey

I know. What a dick.

A Proud Infidel®™

Let me guess, North Korea doesn’t practice REAL communism/socialism and you want tubby ‘lil Kim-Cheese to stay alive and give it JUST ONE more chance!

HMCS(FMF) ret

Lars is just itching to go over and show them “how to get it right”…

rgr769

C’mon, man, as Quid Pro Joe would say. No self-respecting commie would ever admit to praying (except maybe to the demi-gods of Marx, Lenin, and Mao).

Mason

The reason everyone should believe Tara Reade? She says that after Biden penetrated her he said “come on man, I heard you liked me.”

That’s such a Biden statement.

rgr769

The Earl of Taint has a clever graphic of Gropey Joe using that line on Stacey Abrams.

Anonymous

Little fatboy tried autoerotic asphyxiation too long, wound up like this:
comment image

Anonymous

Actually:

Anonymous

That other graphic might parody Commissar’s PC position. My bad.

Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman

The only “hero” I can see coming out of China is a bat sammich.
And I’ll pass on that, ThankYouVeryMuch.

Green Thumb

“In China, when the CCP pushes a narrative, arguing against it is risky. Dissenting posts get deleted, accounts get deleted, people get detained, etc.”

People get deleted. And sometimes, parts of them are resold….

11B-Mailclerk

Chinese Communist

(Puts on sunglasses)

Part-ee

The Other Whitey

The Red Chinese commies are poised to unseat Japan as “Asian Country Most Hated By Their Neighbors.” Considering the Japs earned that status by murdering 50 million people and enslaving/raping (or both) 50 million more, that’s quite an achievement!

Green Thumb

I miss my Chinese made Army Issue Beret that that idiot Shenskei and CSM of the Army Jack “Two-Hole” Tilley decided to order.

Oh, my bad, it was some unmade E-4 who took the heat.

SFC D

The beret was Clinton’s final “fuck you” to the Army.

He wanted us all to look like Monica.

Anonymous

You said it. (Thank God and Greyhound we’ll be going back to a garrison cap with the new World War II-style uniform, too.)

THE BALLAD OF THE (NEW) BLACK BERET

Chairborne soldiers on profile,
Fearless men, PowerPoint style,
Men who’ll run to collect their pay,
The Hooah! men of the Black Beret.

BDUs upon their chest,
These are men, the best of what’s left,
One hundred men will test today,
Ninety-seven will win the Black Beret.

Trained to live on pogie bait,
Might have trouble makin’ tape,
Men who cheese by night and day,
The Hooah! men of the Black Beret.

Gay shower buddy? You’re outta luck.
Can’t get parts to fix the truck.
Readiness problems every dang day.
All solved overnight by a Black Beret.

Back at home a young wife waits,
Her Black Beret has met his fate,
You can bet that she will cry,
When she can’t get his SGLI.

Put BDUs on my son’s chest,
Make him one of the best of what’s left,
Couldn’t get hired at BK,
But he’d still get a Black Beret.

OWB

Off topic: Anyone out there seen stats concerning recent recipients of the seasonal flu shot and incidence of this COVID thingie? An attorney friend has gotten wind of the possibility that recent recipients are getting it at a higher rate than the rest of us but is having trouble getting data. Would appreciate any ideas of who might track inoculations and such.

26Limabeans

I was curious about that a few weeks ago and
wondered if my old fart high dose this year
would protect me from Corona but now wonder if it
is a magnet for it instead.

OWB

Lots of questions, really. Anyone studying commonalities among those succumbing must consider ALL the possibilities. Like, nursing home residents most likely receiving inoculations from the same batch, whereas the rest of us got them hither and yon. Among many other things.

Hospital workers get theirs from the same batch as well, but perhaps not the same batch as the local nursing homes. Just one of many things that should be carefully studied. Like right now.

NHSparky

I got my flu shot at the end of January. No worries here.