When China can CORRECTLY accuse a western company of corruption and intimidation tactics against a company, with evidence, you know you've fucked up.
This is going to get wild since now SBI like companies might now be directly in the crosshairs of the CCP, which I'll be laughing my ASS OFF if idiot commie fetishists are against REAL commies.
Everytime that happens in history, the fetishists usually face the wall...
Any Western company could be accused of outrage baiting, called racist, and then bullied into silence or being ignored.
But a Chinese company doing it has the ability to spread to the rest of the Chinese companies, and possibly the rest of Asia as well, who are far harder if not impossible to control in the same manner. And if they all start throwing off the chains, it'll make it extremely obvious the gap between Western and Asian games and push people further into escapism using them.
Uhm, ackshually, China is a capitalist country. Ignore the fact that the government has absolute authority over anything and everything. The fact that it isn't literally the government carrying out every single individual transaction or business created means it's capitalist, chud!
The CCP knows that while they have a lot of economic and geopolitical power, their military and cultural power is severely lacking. Japan and S. Korea have lots of soft power in the form of entertainment, pop-culture and consumer products, whereas China is still regarded as the place that makes all the cheap crap at Walmart.
So when a Chinese company makes a cultural product that shows promise for becoming a pop-culture phenomenon, going out of your way to undermine that is legitimately subversive to China's soft power. This is the country that promotes faggotry on TikTok while prohibiting that same faggotry on Douyin, the fact that our own government promotes the same subverse brain rot as our most powerful adversary is its own can of worms but regardless, the CCP knows how this game is played.
I'll note that yes, China has had an influence on pop-culture with kung fu films and the like, but that stuff mostly came out of Triad-sponsored Hong Kong studios from back when HK still had freedom. The Cultural Revolution and China's subsequent totalitarian system gutted their ability to produce anything remotely creative, interesting, or even entertaining for generations, but it looks like they're finally starting to heal on that front.
When China can CORRECTLY accuse a western company of corruption and intimidation tactics against a company, with evidence, you know you've fucked up.
This is going to get wild since now SBI like companies might now be directly in the crosshairs of the CCP, which I'll be laughing my ASS OFF if idiot commie fetishists are against REAL commies.
Everytime that happens in history, the fetishists usually face the wall...
Its really the worse possible outcome for them.
Any Western company could be accused of outrage baiting, called racist, and then bullied into silence or being ignored.
But a Chinese company doing it has the ability to spread to the rest of the Chinese companies, and possibly the rest of Asia as well, who are far harder if not impossible to control in the same manner. And if they all start throwing off the chains, it'll make it extremely obvious the gap between Western and Asian games and push people further into escapism using them.
The gap was always there. Asia was never contaminated by Abrahamic prudism.
Uhm, ackshually, China is a capitalist country. Ignore the fact that the government has absolute authority over anything and everything. The fact that it isn't literally the government carrying out every single individual transaction or business created means it's capitalist, chud!
See? Troo communism has never been tried!
The CCP knows that while they have a lot of economic and geopolitical power, their military and cultural power is severely lacking. Japan and S. Korea have lots of soft power in the form of entertainment, pop-culture and consumer products, whereas China is still regarded as the place that makes all the cheap crap at Walmart.
So when a Chinese company makes a cultural product that shows promise for becoming a pop-culture phenomenon, going out of your way to undermine that is legitimately subversive to China's soft power. This is the country that promotes faggotry on TikTok while prohibiting that same faggotry on Douyin, the fact that our own government promotes the same subverse brain rot as our most powerful adversary is its own can of worms but regardless, the CCP knows how this game is played.
I'll note that yes, China has had an influence on pop-culture with kung fu films and the like, but that stuff mostly came out of Triad-sponsored Hong Kong studios from back when HK still had freedom. The Cultural Revolution and China's subsequent totalitarian system gutted their ability to produce anything remotely creative, interesting, or even entertaining for generations, but it looks like they're finally starting to heal on that front.