[Castout]

That's avery good analysis Tyrant.

Manipulating public opinion I know that all too well.

For China to be thought as a viable alternative to United States it must prove that it respects universal human rights. Forget about the division between west and east. Human values are UNIVERSAL. China needs to find its own barometer but rule of law, accountability, freedom of speech and individual rights in my opinion are prerequisites before any one nation could claim to be a first world nation. Those values are universal and fundamental as not able to be bargained.

Like it or not US has been regressing in general in terms of being viewed as a champion of universal human values. It has politicized its handling of many human right abuse cases to profit from them as much as possible while ignoring those which it found to be able to damage its foreign relations.

Manipulating public opinion is a foolish almost idiotic effort that could backfire and provide ammunition to the contrary wish or objective imo. Leadership should be a tool to serve fellow men and the weak than an oppressive tool. The privilege is not about being able to do anything a man wishes but to shape the country and to develop his fellow man to see a stronger China. If Chinese leadership can't understand moral sentiment then they must have been lying to themselves. Conscience is an integral part of ANY MAN. A simple experiment will prove this. Spit to any man in any world without a provocation and he would likely be upset at the minimum and if you punch that person he will probably be very angry at the very least. If the elites view their people with little regard then they are viewing themselves with too much regard. As what they treat their citizens like it's how you must treat the leaders like since they are representative of such people. And if they are not the representative of the people then you're dealing with a firm, a corporation.