Google....are basically softpower riding on the back of yank hard power. And the yanks still can carry out lots of espionage. CNN and rest of yank media gangs have been carry out disinfos and so what...
I long for the day china GDP ⇒ 40% (or more) of global GDP ⇒ yank $ less tempting to enfant terribles. Right now, 'optics&profile' aren't priority
Yanks cheered the 1965 indonesian anti-communist coup that killed a million. I once told an indonesian domestic that a lot of indonesians died in 1965 and she wasn't aware of that. She is more interested in projecting (a mild form of) image of Wahhabi islam.
https://www.nytimes.com/1965/10/11/archives/us-is-heartened-by-red-setback-in-indonesia-coup-capital-thinks.html