The Chinese government is trying to come up with better advertising to improve its image around the world. But it already has an absolutely magnificent global propaganda machine. The problem is the product, not the marketing.

China engages in belligerent military harassment of its East Asian neighbors. It claims the territory and territorial waters of a slew of countries as its own. It makes deals with dictators of poor countries to build infrastructure that facilitates mining their natural resources while destroying their environment, employs mostly imported Chinese workers to do the construction, and drives those countries deep in debt in the process. It inflicts slave labor, imprisonment, and torture on its minority populations. It is now shutting down foreign businesses and demonizing foreigners with racist rhetoric. When Chinese citizens hold a protest, the government locks them up. China lies routinely about foreign countries. Whenever it gets called out for having enabled the Covid pandemic, it picks another country out of a hat to claim was where Covid originated from. There are 4 or 5 places by now it has claimed Covid came from. (Even though early on it blamed its own city Wuhan, which was the actual origin).

The only reliable way to sell a product is if it is something that customers appreciate.

Metaphorically speaking, what the Chinese government offers the rest of the world is rat poison marketed as baby food.

Slicker propaganda campaigns won't work.

1 No matter what they are, or are not, saying, the big problem is that they are manufacturing goods that everybody is buying. I feel bad that my wife and I both use iPhones, but who else is manufacturing quality smartphones? I bought a new mouse for my wife's computer a couple of days ago, and of course it was manufactured in China -- as are the mice on the other three computers in the house. At least my computer was manufactured in Indonesia (Dell). I assume all the other Dell computers in the house are likewise but I'd really have to check.

I'm wearing a pair of Mike Lindell's "My Slippers" at the moment -- made right here in Minnesota -- but wife and I are going out to eat before long and I'll be donning sneakers that came from Payless when they were still open, and I'll betcha they were made in China.

2 There is the problem in a nutshell Dana. Most of our goods - at least the cheaper ones - come from China. As long as we buy their stuff we are beholden to them.

We need to promote other markets. I'm sure Mexico or India could manufacture these same goods. Or we can (except labor costs are too high thanks to Democrat policies.)

3 I think it might be a good idea to promote Mexico as a strong economic entity. Of course, we already manufacture some of our cars and trucks there; I mean help them set up their own companies.

4 I agree. For that matter, why can't, say, Guatemala make cheap stuff? It would stop a lot of the illegal aliens from coming here.

But that would upset the carefully laid plans of the Democrats and the media and the Ruling Class.

5 It's fascinating how the Chinese government is focusing on advertising, but they need to focus on digital marketing tactics. I recently explored digital press release distributions to increase traffic and online presence. You can read more about it. Every business requires marketing to increase revenue and business growth.