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China's ocean drilling ship Mengxiang aims to be first to reach Earth's mantle

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As search for "site:theguardian.com mengxiang" yields nothing.

Meanwhile, The Guardian is happy to print this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777529

I'd love to see western media print both the positive and negative stories from China, not just negative.

The mission of this ship is awesome.

The Guardian is a clickbait factory, of course they're more likely to report on shit than on a ship. If you want high-brow reporting, try Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-conduct-sea-trials...

I'm mainly interested in the popular western media outlets since that's what most people read.

site:cnn.com mengxiang

site:foxnews.com mengxiang

site:nytimes.com mengxiang

All yielded nothing. I did not test further.

Goes both ways. When I was in China the first TV news I saw was a report on a car chase in Florida, like 15000 miles away. Like really, nothing else interesting to report on?

The total amount of propaganda isn’t nearly the same.

Chinese news will have positive US stories including product launches such as the newest Apple products or the latest Nvidia GPUs. China will also show Hollywood movies and play American music in their coffee shops. You never hear Chinese music in American coffee shops or watch Chinese movies at AMC.

Conversely, nearly everything is negative about China in the US.

I don't know, I saw Ne Zha at AMC :)

If you don't know, then try visiting China again.

I am well aware that the US exports a ton of music and film, and we're good at it, yes. China's film production has only recently in the last ten years really started to catch up IMO, the market is adapting.

Don't focus on the film or music industry. If you walk around any city in China, you'd see McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, and Starbucks all over. People use iPhones everywhere. American brands and marketing are all over China.

Come to the US and what Chinese products/services do you see?

The level of anti-country propaganda isn't close to being equal.

I don't think the US is somehow denying China the same treatment. Why not compare to another country like Canada or Mexico? What's stopping China there?

We literally have "made in China" on almost everything we own...

>We literally have "made in China" on almost everything we own...

Designed by American companies though. Also, "made in China" has been turned into a negative image for China due to the perception of low quality. It isn't a logo.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mengxiang+mantle -- https://old.reddit.com/search/?q=mengxiang&sort=new

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