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China's International Soft Power Campaign: Vying for Diplomatic, Business, and Cultural Leadership
Left to right: Wenran Jiang, David Kang, Daniel Rosen, Orville Schell (Elsa Ruiz/Asia Society)
China's Rise Series
NEW YORK - Rapidly extending its reach around the globe, China has benefited from its international standing through a soft power campaign focused on diplomatic, business, and cultural leadership. In turn, many questions have been raised about China's future role in Asia and the world.
With China expanding its influence abroad through aid, infrastructure development, and a desire to be perceived as a champion of developing nations in the international financial and political systems, has it succeeded in extending its ability to attract and persuade?
What conditions have enabled China's soft power to emerge globally as a viable alternative to the West? How much of China's soft power success is a result of having a cultural and historical "brand China," and how much is contingent upon China's economic success and ability to maintain domestic stability? Do China's natural resource investments help the economies in which they are being made, or are they merely a form of neo-colonialism?
To explore the answers to these questions, Asia Society hosted a discussion with four distinguished experts in the inaugural program of a new series, "China's Rise," that looks at China's growing influence around the world.
Speakers:
Wenran Jiang, Director, China Institute, University of Alberta
David Kang, Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College
Daniel Rosen, Principal, China Strategic Advisory
Moderator:
Orville Schell, Director, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society
Listen on Demand (1 hr., 22 min.)
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I'm not sure i have a summary pexect to throw my hands up and say it was multicausal, rooted in history (and historical political economy), and that matters after independence of all sorts didn't help. I suppose one might argue that there was less room for policy maneuveur in Sri Lanka than in India, but, then, one can say almost anything one wants to about places one knows slightly more than very little. kettikilli, on the other hand, who wrote the post, is quite insightful :)Collective analyses of the U.S. psyche are fun it was particularly interesting when they devalued the Chinese economy by about 40% on the basis of PPP couldn't tell EXACTLY what the motivation was there reassurance of themselves or a political maneuver by the financial elite and their friendsint he state.
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