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7/7/2025, 10:21:21 PM
>>17823034
>China still has its unique character and history but the infusion of Western ideology and technology into it makes modern China significantly more recognizable and less exotic to a modern lens than it would have seemed centuries ago.
I think it works for them having a less black/white view of the West. They do copy a hell of a lot, and I'll notice little things in propaganda videos like Chinese students studiously looking at Xi Jinping books in their college library alongside American-style varsity jackets. Like, certain ways of running an economy, and enterprise management. Science and technology. Look at their military channel after the U.S. bombed Iran and it's super Tom Clancy / Jane's / technical-tier stuff:
https://youtu.be/I7dtupiapJE
The Islamic countries have struggled with this because they have corrupt rulers who want to live in luxury and are in cahoots with the West, so you have these Islamic revivalist movements that try to overthrow the corrupt rules, but they also reject everything Western. The influence of scientific rationalism is a threat to the religion. They're in a situation that China was like during its decline.
>China still has its unique character and history but the infusion of Western ideology and technology into it makes modern China significantly more recognizable and less exotic to a modern lens than it would have seemed centuries ago.
I think it works for them having a less black/white view of the West. They do copy a hell of a lot, and I'll notice little things in propaganda videos like Chinese students studiously looking at Xi Jinping books in their college library alongside American-style varsity jackets. Like, certain ways of running an economy, and enterprise management. Science and technology. Look at their military channel after the U.S. bombed Iran and it's super Tom Clancy / Jane's / technical-tier stuff:
https://youtu.be/I7dtupiapJE
The Islamic countries have struggled with this because they have corrupt rulers who want to live in luxury and are in cahoots with the West, so you have these Islamic revivalist movements that try to overthrow the corrupt rules, but they also reject everything Western. The influence of scientific rationalism is a threat to the religion. They're in a situation that China was like during its decline.
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