Fear China, Screams Memorable Attack Ad

The clip takes place in “Beijing 2030″ as a Chinese professor lectures on why America collapsed. His reasons are, completely coincidentally, the same as the organization’s talking points: government stimulus spending during the Recession, major changes in health care policy, and public intervention in private industries. The Professor concludes “now they work for us,” as his students laugh maniacally.
Smith calls the ad “slickly-produced” and sure to get some attention. Fallows goes further, comparing it to attack ad greats like “Morning in America,” “Willie Horton,” “the Daisy Girl,” and “3am Phone Call.” Fallows acknowledges that the ad is factually flawed, as the “reasons why America fell” are all strategies used by the Chinese to fight recession, but concludes that the ad’s value as a tool of “persuasion and motivation” does not require it to make sense.
The ad promises to make a splash for another reason: it uses subtitles, making it ripe for easy parody. Have at it, Internet.

Link here:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/f ... emorable-attack-ad/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?fea ... d&v=OTSQozWP-rM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5BoNZ981jE&NR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F20pP145Zho

[ Last edited by  atomic3d at 24-10-2010 11:04 ]

i think similar story had also happened around 20 years ago when japan's economic power was very strong.

The US did set up this kind of imaginary threat like USSR, Japan in the past....

Haroldia,

You sure about this? Japan can never compare to China or the US. 20 years ago, Japan may be economically powerful but the country's population was aging even then and its population too small. As for the USSR, it was in economic decline in the early 90s after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

i agree with what you said Japan cannot compare to China. but the US just always need to setup a country as their target to "talk".

What exactly do you mean by to "talk". Could you elaborate on this?? Or is this another one of your famous irrelevant one liners?

sorry about my poor english. i think i should say the US like to set up a target to focus to complete rather than use the word talk.