It is all done in a fully barefaced manner. Those who are not part of this world could never even dream about such a 'perfect' design.
You come to your club, in my case to The Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand (FCCT), and immediately the long arm of indoctrination begins stretching towards you.
You place yourself on a comfortable couch, and soon after get fully serviced. You get instructed, told what to think and how to formulate or modify your ideas.
You are periodically shown movies about "corruption and immorality" in China. You get encouraged to participate in some public discussions that are, among other things, trashing the anti-Western president of the Philippines.
Although lately also the Middle East, and particularly Syria, are brought into the spotlight.
Of course almost all that is on offer in such places like FCCT is the Western view, or concretely a set of Western views raging from conservative to 'liberal'. The club is located in Asia, in the heart of Southeast Asia, but very few Asians are invited to speak here, except the few Thais who are well versed in the Western way of thinking. Or Western agents like the Dalai Lama, of course - such individuals can come anytime they want! Forget about hearing from 'the other side' - you'd never stumble here over speakers such as Communist thinkers or writers from Mainland China, or pro-Duterte academics or activists from the Philippines.
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