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'manufacturing consent' - John Pilger was on about this in 2016. All too easy
This is the first time I've heard about John Pilger.

I've learned a thing or two about western media propaganda or just propaganda in general over the last 4 or 5 years. Basically, once a narrative has been pushed through mass media, it becomes almost impossible to reverse.

For example, the narrative that "China bad" is so deeply ingrained in US culture. If you write anything that is remotely suggesting "China good", you're automatically labeled as promoting CCP propaganda, or you're a traitor, or people just refuse it no matter how much evidence you provide.

Everything is black and white. So crystal clear. China evil. China bad. USA good. In reality, everything is far more grey than black and white.

Check out 'Overton Window' - basically how you move a concept from taboo to consensus
Fundamentally incompatible values (I lived there for 10+ years). CCP is evil, truly. It has nothing to do with sinophobia.
The Chinese people don't seem to overthrow governments at a particularly quick rate. The last three dynasties before the revolution lasted about 210 years each.
Is government overthrow rate a good measure of how well a culture can overthrow a government?
You are correct. The same exact things about Russia. Even if something positive happens there, the anti-russian propaganda twists it to the point it is a negative