>>216377998
Bruh both you and Japan's cultural exports were & are heavily government supported & promoted. Not to mentiom in your case, copying Japan did fucking work.
I'm old enough to remember Cool Japan BS which SK's Ministry of Culture copied. SKorea even copied Japan's branding styles from the 2000s (J-Pop/J-Rock => K-Pop).
In terms of promoting its pop culture abroad China's main disadvantages lies on the CCP being strict on freedom of expression and also a huge domestic market that deincentivizes caring for international audience's tastes.