Surveys have shown that Xi Jinping’s hardline foreign policy is increasingly unpopular abroad. Given the CCP’s mixed success using soft power to repair China’s image, party propagandists have increasingly resorted to sharper...
Read MoreIn Newsweek, Joshua Kurlantzick writes about shifting dynamics in Asia as China takes a more aggressive stance in its foreign policy: China has reopened old wounds with India by publicly raising its claims to territory in the...
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal: In the wake of the 1989 crackdown on prodemocracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, the Chinese Communist Party seemed morally bankrupt. Average Chinese complained bitterly about graft...
Read MoreIn the New Republic, Joshua Kurlantzick writes about Beijing’s new strategy of co-option in Tibet that he says is a more “insidious danger” than blatant repression: To be sure, China still cracks down, as it...
Read MoreFor the National Post, Joshua Kurlantzick looks at how rural citizens are viewing the Olympics: Not surprisingly, for many of these rural dwellers the Games might be an interesting distraction on TV, rather than a source of...
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: On a smoggy morning in Lanzhou, a gritty industrial city in China’s Gansu province, crowds of young men gather outside a half-built construction site. Dressed in torn jeans and dirty shirts and carrying thermoses of tea, they push toward the exterior fence, jostling for the attention of a site manager who […]
Read MoreFrom The New Republic: On the streets of Chinese cities, Big Brother has gone increasingly high-tech. Once, members of local Party committees essentially monitored their neighbors, sometimes filing reports on potential unrest and picking out future troublemakers. Today, some of that variety of Party watchdog still exists. But in cities like Lhasa, capital of the […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times, via Carnegie Endowment for International Peace website: During the last two months, as Washington focused on Iraq, few people were paying attention to what was going in the remote Ural Mountains of Russia. There, under the auspices of the benign-sounding Shanghai Cooperation Organization, some 6,000 troops, combat vehicles and planes from […]
Read MoreFrom The New Republic: … China’s athletes, brought up in a disciplined system, probably never were the life of any Games. But the 2008 Olympics could be particularly brutal for them. Many athletes seem to benefit from local support–in Sydney, Australian athletes, loving the home crowd, turned in a staggering medal haul. But Australian politicians […]
Read MoreFrom Foreign Policy Research Institute website: … There are many definitions of soft power, but basically, when the Chinese government talks about its new soft power in the world, it means all power outside of the military sphere, including diplomacy, aid, investment, and economic tools. One reason for this new relationship with the world is […]
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