In US News and World Report, Joshua Kurlantzick looks at China’s soft power efforts in Burma (Myanmar): For years, China insisted it had a limited role in places like Myanmar (formerly Burma). It would invest and trade, yes, but not get involved in politics like the United States, which has imposed tough sanctions on the […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: The north of Thailand remained little more than a collection of sleepy villages for decades. Today, the region resembles a burgeoning metropolis ” a metropolis in China. With trade booming, it has become a way station for ships delivering Chinese apples, mobile phones and other items. In the Thai city of […]
Read MoreJoshua Kurlantzick is a visiting scholar at the China Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This essay is excerpted from his book Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World. From The Boston Globe: Embarking upon a 12-day tour of Africa earlier this year, Chinese President Hu Jintao likely expected a […]
Read MoreJoshua Kurlantzick is a visiting scholar at the China Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This essay is excerpted from his book Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World. From Foreign Policy In Focus: In a short period of time, Beijing has proven that it can shift its foreign policy […]
Read MoreFor the CDT Bookshelf, China Digital Times invites experts on China to recommend a book to CDT readers. This month, Joshua Kurlantzick, a visiting scholar in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s China Program and author of Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power is Transforming the World, recommends China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy […]
Read More: Kurlantzick is a visiting scholar at the China Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. This essay is adapted from his forthcoming book, “Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World.” From The Newsweek: As anti-Americanism grows, China is learning the value of good PR and beating the United States at […]
Read MoreRolling Stone Magazine has published a lengthy article by Joshua Kurlantzick about the future of Tibetan culture: But Tibet’s time may be running out. In the past decade, China has waged a quiet but ruthless war on Tibetan society — part of a deliberate and sophisticated campaign to strip “the Roof of the World” of […]
Read MoreFrom Current History, via American Foreign Policy Council (link): The streets of Maputo, the capital of the former Portuguese colony of Mozambique, look little different from those of other sub-Saharan African cities. Open sewers overflow with rotting fruit, beggars harass pedestrians for 1,000 meticals (the equivalent of less than 10 cents), and young mothers walk […]
Read MoreFrom the Prospect: While America has been distracted by the war on terror, authoritarian Beijing has been spreading its influence through east Asia and beyond. In fact, for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union, US “soft power” is being challenged by a state which is capable of wielding comparable economic and […]
Read MoreChinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang is currently on a five-nation tour of Africa as part of his first official overseas trip in his new position. His itinerary includes Ethiopia, Gabon, Angola, Benin, and Egypt, continuing a...
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