Posted on 09/21/2020 1:45:23 PM PDT by libh8er
A high-octane PR video for China's airforce crashlanded on social media after users questioned why the world's second-largest military power spliced clips from Hollywood blockbusters "Transformers" and "The Rock" into its own propaganda material.
The video, with 4.72 million views on Weibo and crafted by the Propaganda and Culture Centre of the PLA's Air Force, parades its medium- and long-range H-6 bomber.
With a soaring score and high-altitude action shots, the chest-thumping video shows Chinese airmen launching an attack on an island base -- strongly resembling US facilities in Diego Garcia and Guam -- then returning from the successful sortie.
But eagle-eyed social media users in China were quick to spot some glaring plot holes.
The explosive central missile sequences were plucked from three Hollywood movies, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", "The Rock" and "Hurt Locker", and Weibo was withering in its scorn for the lack of originality.
"It turned out that our dream of great power was pieced together by editing American film clips," said one user.
"We promote the domestic military aircraft using US Hollywood movie clips, why bother?" added another, while a third said: "It's our nation's promotional video, why don't we use our own images?"
China is locked with the US in a power struggle over defence, technology, trade, disputed seas and the status of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The Pentagon says China already outstrips the US in several areas of defence -- claims Beijing furiously denies -- and wants to double its stockpile of nuclear warheads
I’ve heard that in the new Top Gun movie, Tom Cruise holds up a plate of food and says,
“There’s nothing better than eating General Tso’s Chicken!”
Chicoms steal intellectual property?
Who knew?
Can they do anything without stealing?
Bloggers do it every day.
It's the lesson on page three of the Blogging For Dummies book.
I like Archer.
This aggravates me. Maybe it's supposed to be psy ops or something.
Got really weird in the prior season, but I guess they're reverting to classic Archer. Phrasing.
Call Pam Poovey. She means business.
I suspect the Chi-Comms did this because they didn't
want to show their supposedly advanced top secret
missiles to the world OR because they really don't have any
advanced top secret missiles that would frighten the world.
The Chi_Comms don't want to be laughed at.
They are being laughed at anyway.
Oh noes! They’re planning to attack Alcatraz Island then kidnap all the homosexuals in San Francisco!
I would go with the latter. Even the Russians have severely restricted arms sales to China. One of their requirements now is they will only sell in bulk. No more selling one or two items so the Chinese get to reverse engineer and build their own knockoffs. China’s main advantage is they can manufacture at scale which gives the impression they are a very powerful force, but they are really a paper dragon.
Hey, don’t knock it. That’s how those raghead saudis came up with the plan for 9/11. By watching a movie called “Executive Action.” Great flick. Why was it great? Cause Stephen Seagal was killed off in the very beginning.
ChiCom H6 bomber
A bad copy of the old Soviet Soviet Tupolev Tu-16.
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 first flew in the 1950s. Think of it as a cousin of the B-52, age wise.
Big, slow, radar target. Twin engines, when they can get two to work.
Meh
Raptor bait.
Could not find the propaganda video.
Thanks. I saw the clip from the rock movie. Chinese are so
lame.
How can I help!
The CHICOMS deserve every AIDS infected HOMO we can give them.
China’s main advantage is they can manufacture at scale which gives the impression they are a very powerful force, but they are really a paper dragon.
13 posted on 9/21/2020, 4:58:17 PM by libh8er
Back in WWII, Stalin was asked about the inadequacies of the Russian tanks against the superior designed and built German tanks.
His reply was perfectly phrased, “Quantity has a quality of its own”.
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