{"id":142338,"date":"2025-12-14T03:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142338"},"modified":"2025-12-14T03:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:10:47","slug":"soft-power-hard-work-can-china-harness-social-media-apps-to-rewire-its-global-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142338","title":{"rendered":"Soft power \u2013 hard work: can China harness social media apps to rewire its global image?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMary Roettger was just one of millions of Americans seeking a social media life raft when she warily logged onto China\u2019s RedNote platform for the first time in January.<br \/>\nAs fears loomed over a threatened US ban on TikTok, the Florida writer braced for a clumsy, spam-filled experience full of \u201cnegative people\u201d.<br \/>\nInstead, she was struck by a starkly different culture. Roettger was \u201cblown away with the amount of tenderness and excitement\u201d of the online community suddenly before her.<br \/>\n\u201cThat was new,\u201d&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3335401\/soft-power-hard-work-can-china-harness-social-media-apps-rewire-its-global-image?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostMary Roettger was just one of millions of Americans seeking a social media life raft when she warily logged onto China\u2019s RedNote platform for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}