Believe me this is going to cost China big time. India, being the second most populous country on Earth, is a huge market,
India might be populous, but it's desperately poor. It's more malnourished than North Korea
https://www.livemint.com/Politics/J...blem-is-worse-than-North-Koreas-global-h.html
No matter how many zeros I add together, the result is still zero.
China just shot itself in the foot by antagonizing this huge market for no apparent good reason
China shot nowhere near its foot and it "antagonized" India for a very good reason: to establish to it and everyone else that China is the boss of Asia. Given the reaction from Nepal, Bangladesh, Iran, Afghanistan, and even Bhutan, I think the whole thing has been quite a success.
As for the global reaction, social media (which you so casually dismiss) is the global reaction in this day and age.
Among the simple-minded, gullible, and easily distracted. The leaders of the world use other measures to make their decisions, measures social media has little to do with.
I highly recommend you subscribe to a YouTube channel named China Uncensored.
No thanks, I have no desire to watch Falun Gong trash. What a weirdo cult.
In the social media war, China is losing big time
Perhaps, but in the money and power war, China is winning bigly. We'll leave the social media war to the likes of India, it's more than welcome to "win" that.
So China is definitely losing the media war.
You have very strange criteria of winning and losing. China is "losing" if it doesn't have total command of its enemy's media space?