Man, if only we had a bunch of soft power programs already in place doing good work that also helped ideologically....
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Or, hear me out, spend the money to make your country less shit.
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You'll counter them by creating partnerships with those countries that benefit them more than the Chinese, right?

36 BILLION for wars , 5 billion pocketed. Hundreds of millions for anti China..... Nothing for health care.
I'm sure China gives a shit about hundreds of millions of rapidly inflating US dollar
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Wasn’t that the point of USAID and VoA?
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