#soft-power — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #soft-power, aggregated by home.social.
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We Analyzed Thousands of News Articles: Here’s the Proof of Pro-Israel Bias in Mainstream Media
https://theintercept.com/2026/05/12/gaza-media-coverage-israel-bias/
> U.S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public.
#USA #uspol #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #media #softPower #genocide #settlerColonialism #colonialism
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As Gideon Rachman (FT) argues, at the very same time the Tangerine Tyrant is (quite quickly) dismantling the US' soft power (hard to build easy to destroy), Xi Jinping is using China's material economy to build soft power in the growing vacuum left by the US's actions (or inactions).
This might be best understood as part of the pivot away from the US which has been slowly accelerating & now seems to be becoming increasingly obvious (even to non-specialists)
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"Décidément, Frédéric Martel n’a pas peur des infréquentables". Cette chute pour finir un article sur ce journaliste écrivain sulfureux est d'une stupidité... On ne pratique pas du journalisme d'enquête en ne voyant que des personnes "fréquentables"... Lui reprocher d'approcher des personnalités pour faire son travail... Par contre, ses invitations dans son émission Soft Power, c'est autre chose. https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/le-cas-frederic-martel-enquete-sur-lintriguant-globe-trotter-des-idees-20260502_XJYMHIQ5KBEANJMCU4VZIDSIFA/?redirected=1825
#Politique #LFI #Melenchon #Epstein #Presse #Medias #SoftPower
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Russia's Tuapse oil refinery disaster deepens after new drone strike -- Russia has a new missile: here's what we know about the S-71K -- Russia preparing to recruit thousands of foreign fighters in 2026 -- Russian Iskander missile storage facility in occupied Crimea hit, Ukraine's Special Forces release video ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/wednesday-april-29-2026/
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Chumbo na asa da “Águia Americana”.
- bsoplvr
https://outraspalavras.net/geopoliticaeguerra/chumbo-na-asa-da-aguia-americana/
#GeopolticaGuerra #guiaAmericana #Bipolarizaogeopoltica #EUA #Ir #Israel #MAGA #Softpower #Trump -
Aquí me tienen mirando una imagen random en internet (en un post de @3CatInfo, por cierto) para practicar la lectura en árabe, haciendo zoom en las distintas zonas de escritura cuando de repente me topo con un puesto de #Esquites DENTRO de un cine en #Teherán 😆
Mexican #SoftPower
Y ahora tengo antojo de un elote. #ThanksObama -
Guys, why not just stop being assholes in front of the entire world? Instead of trying to put make up on a pig. And it's a bit late now to be concerned about lost soft power.
"US directs American embassies to wage campaign against foreign ‘hostility’ – with Musk’s help"
> Cable signed by Marco Rubio and seen by Guardian suggests staff work with Pentagon psychological operations unit
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CRRC MA's factory in Springfield, MA. It makes subway cars for the MBTA in Massachusetts and for the Los Angeles Metro. CRRC MA is a wholly owned subsidiary of CRRC (中国中车股份有限公司), a Chinese state-owned rolling stock manufacturer, the highest grossing in the world.
To the tune of "Ebony and Ivory," everyone!
🎶Stars and Stripes and Golden Stars / Fly together in the evening breeze...🎶
#capitalism #trade #CapitalismwithChineseCharacteristics #SoftPower #transportation #manufacturing -
China stepping up their soft power after the US withdrew a lot of our own soft power around the world is certainly notable.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/china-send-humanitarian-aid-iran-jordan-lebanon-and-iraq
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BBC World Service
The UK does like to reduce its ‘soft power’ with ill considered cuts. With impeccable timing…
‘Some language services that were moved to digital-only distribution saw overall audiences fall 63 percent, while their digital reach also dropped 39 percent. In Nigeria, audiences were hit after social platforms deprioritized news content, further cutting visibility for BBC material’
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/bbc_world_service_digital_pivot/
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(4/5) ... faïence ou les coquilles d'huîtres + naissance de l'artiste Germaine Saisset-Schneider (cf 1892 1905 1915 1919 1920 1921 1923 1924 1927 1929 1932 1935 1936).
- 1ère Alliance française = utilisation de l' #art #culture #softpower #diplomatie (cf 1922).
- Prague : naissance de Jaroslav Hašek #livre (cf 1921).#livres Au Bonheur des Dames d'Emile #Zola -> "cathédrale du #commerce moderne"
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China’s shrinking Radio Landscape
There are facts about China’s international broadcasting, and there are various options to interpret the changes it is undergoing. The China Media Project (CMP), once based in Hong Kong, now in Taiwan, sees a trend in China to "streamline" domestic media, namely radio and television channels, on classic terrestial or satellite frequencies.
While covering the trend, CMP also link to an earlier report funded by the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency.
The latter report focuses on the transformation of Chinese "external propaganda" from the past century into that of this early century, something that may be called "telling China’s story well" or (the same thing under a different name) an international "public opinion struggle". Either way, it comes as regionally decentralized, but politically as centrally controlled as ever.
Some trends in international and domestic mediawork are universal: a shift from linear broadcasting, classically on terrestrial frequencies, to media work that integrates broadcasting (frequently online), podcasting, use of video platforms, plus social media such as X, Bluesky, Tiktok, or Wechat.
Even though this kind of media integration is a familiar trend in Western countries, too,
[m]uch of the West’s understanding of China’s external propaganda apparatus remains anchored to an outdated model from the era of what scholars and ers of PRC communication and disinformation have termed “mega external propaganda” (大外宣), or da waixuan — essentially the structure of central staterun media such as Xinhua News Agency, China Daily, and CGTN that was bolstered from the late 2000s under Hu Jintao, and which has been amplified with mixed success through global social media platforms.
In fact, it would seem that Chinese external propaganda has been turned into sort of a rabbithole, both locally "decentralized" and in terms of platform variety, where Peking’s "struggle" may remain unnoticed by media watchers (except for the actual target groups). Can BBC Monitoring keep pace?
My first impression after the end of China Radio International (as we know it) was that Chinese external propaganda had abandoned the West as a bunch of lost souls. That was probably a too radiocentric view. The CMP reports draw up a different picture – after all, the decline of traditional radio broadcasting isn’t limited to China’s external propaganda, but includes domestic media, too.
Radio workers in Europe, possibly the Americas and parts of Oceania, and obviously in China, see the same trend at work. Wide ranges of the audience everyhwere, especially the younger, adopt new "media consumption" habits from the start.
All the same, China’s efforts – this is my impression, and not a statistic! – do seem to shift, to some extent, from Western audiences to South East Asian, East Asian, Central Asian and African ones.
Western countries remain target areas for China’s opinion struggle, but developing countries may provide audiences with better returns, i. e. appreciation rates. From China’s perspective, mediaworking on Africa’s public opinion looks more rewarding than mediaworking on car-making countries like Germany.
After all, the common trend in China and the West is no coincidence. It reflects converging technological levels and levels of consumption. These economies aren’t as complementary as they used to be, and sharper economic competition may have led to less openness for China’s propaganda in places like Europe.
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MAGA Suddenly Quiet About Overseas Influence Now That Larry Ellison’s Warner Bros Bid Has Saudi, Chinese Backing
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Brahma Chellaney critica el deterioro del poder blando de EE.UU. bajo la segunda presidencia de Trump
📰 Título original: thehill.com
🤖 IA: Es clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: Es clickbait ⚠️Ver resumen IA completo: https://killbait.com/es/brahma-chellaney-critica-el-deterioro-del-poder-blando-de-ee-uu-bajo-la-segunda-presidencia-de-trump/?redirpost=6a7cacd1-6ad2-424b-a3ec-c1e173a8c282
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Goles, poder y silencio: el fútbol nunca ha sido ni será ajeno a la política | #RollingStoneES
#actualidad #deportes #donaldtrump #eduardogaleano #estadosunidos #fifa #fútbol #gianniinfantino #mundial #palestino #política #rusia #ruudgullit #softpower #sócrates #ériccantona
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@thecasualcritic @Flisty @wayne @ChrisMayLA6
The sad thing is that every time the BBC publishes an article like this it loses just a little more of the trust and respect it once had, and the UK’s soft power is yet further eroded, too.
#BBC #UKPolitics #SoftPower -
#52booksin52weeks Spans More than a Decade by Issac Asimov #empire #historicalcycles #psychohistory #fate #freewill #SoftPower #humanbehavior #sciencefiction #classicscifi #EpicSciFi #asimov #IsaacAsimov #bookstagram #booktok #booksky #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
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David Haigh, chairman and CEO of Brand Finance, said in #Davos that he believes #China is showcasing a high-quality rise driven by brand building and #softpower enhancement. http://xhtxs.cn/9Fz
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lol and how is this regional court in the so-called United States of American corporations going to enforce its laws on the rest of the planet?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/judge-orders-annas-archive-to-delete-scraped-data-no-one-thinks-it-will-comply/
#AnnasArchive #SoftPower #Archive -
@w7voa
Seems axios takes much too narrow a view of the unfolding debacle. Under the current administration the USA has sacrificed all aspects of #SoftPower.