The propaganda stuff may seem bland and crude and one might wonder if anyone listens. However, the Chinese leaders are very serious about propaganda as a powerful tool, and we who look in from outside should also take it seriously. Our experience is from an environment of free information, and we may not fully grasp what the absence of something we take to be obvious means. Where information is controlled, what is repeated and repeated again gets believed, and what is not naysaid becomes truth.
