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Failed Palau Media Deal Reveals Inner Workings of China’s Pacific Influence Effort (www.occrp.org)

submitted 1 year ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/politics

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China is seeking to exert its influence in the Pacific region by using political pressure and funding to capture local elites, including in the media, experts say. In countries such as Palau that recognize Taiwan, those methods can be elaborate.

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[–] PostmodernPythia 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

America dropped a lot of our soft power while we were busy trying to invade everyone in the early 2000s; China picked it up and did something with it. As an American, I can’t be mad that they were smarter than us. As a human, I’m disgusted that resource gaps between and within countries are so big that those approaches work.