

Opinion
SCMP Columnist
China Briefing by Wang Xiangwei
China’s treatment of Oscar winner Chloé Zhao shows how to lose friends and not influence people
- China has missed a great opportunity to promote its soft power by refusing to celebrate the Nomadland director’s triumph at the Academy Awards
- Internationally it will appear insecure and unconfident. Besides, the film perfectly illustrates its propaganda narrative of a declining America
Wang Xiangwei
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Updated: 9:30am, 1 May, 2021
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