[ranguna]

Here's a thought, maybe all those news are "fake news"?

The original article talks about China misinformation in Taiwan. Maybe western society is running the same thing to China. Like like they did for North Korea.

Remember the "people can only get certain types of haircuts in North Korea"? Fake news, and I believed it at the time. So now I'm always sceptical on what I read from western news talking about Asian countries.

Here's an interesting satire about this https://youtu.be/2BO83Ig-E8E?si=MziI90I7xP5W4g-m

[glimshe]

Western "society" can't do anything because it's not a uniform entity. We're a group of individuals who can post ideas and theories in forums like Hacker News or anywhere else. Perhaps you can say that about mainstream media, having in mind that the average person doesn't care too much about what happens inside China or Asia, unless if it's killing jobs in the West.

[ranguna]

Although what you said makes since in principle, there's a lot of people who "fell" for the hair cut "news" and many other ones.