Assessing China's Global Image and Soft Power

[prreyreyland]

Korean Japanese and American Solf Power 4ever!

[prreyreyland]

China is mostly Han so it’s their Race and linguistic identity that make it so hard for outsiders to except china.

[unitytorch]

@natedaren patience is a virtue.

[natedaren]

ummm....ummm....uhhh...ummm  Could this dude please take a speaking class?!?

[VersAndorran]

Very interesting topic. Sloppy speaker.

[ivarunmehta]

Its early days, Chinese are still trying to figure out the best possible approach for portraying their soft-power.

One way i like they do it is by not interfering in other countries internal affairs.

Hope they continue to do so when they become developed in 100 years or so and not go the Western Worlds route of policing the Earth.

[InODependanceSyndrom]

@ivarunmehta

It all comes together with education. Knowing history, learns you that war is a retorical action that only conducts a vicious circle without ending if not brought to a end by failing to start these practices to start with.

Last time I checked chinese education supplies more intel and to a broader populace then in america and many places elsewhere.

Also the chinese may be different, they may be communist, some of their leaders definetely have personal political goals.

[InODependanceSyndrom]

it seems like a watertight system. But who knows. Perhaps their politics are orgestrated aswell. Perhaps Hu jintao is just a chest piece, good for nothing more then to skyrocket their markets and businesses to make room for chinese war crmininals in political terms to come.

I dont find it likely for that to happen in china.

Most of them seem peaceloving people, but i also find that about americans.

It just depends which state or neighbourhood your walking trough.

[ivarunmehta]

@InODependanceSyndrom

In terms of Foreign Policy people being nice doesn't really matter.

All thats important is the leadership.

Chinese public is extremely nationalistic nearly all Asian countries are (i am from this region, so i know a bit)

Its leaders have shown incredible restraint in recent times (very well could be by design rather than choice but nonetheless).

US unfortunately is the exact opposite since WW2, esp. in the last decade though.

[Strugglle]

Chinese students' high scores in international tests? last month that students in Shanghai had outperformed the rest of the industrialized world in standardized exams in math, reading and science,,, this guy speak out against china.

[Strugglle]

will America's image around the world improve? i dnt think so, american military invade any country wch disagree politicly chnge tht gov't and killing inocent people, Obama said we restore our image but in the end nothing,,,,, chinese image around the world is good shape,

[karmlan123]

In the chart, Japan and many countries that previously a bullier are least positive on Chinese growing power. I can understand it is a mixture of worry and jealous?

[barrhavener]

@karmlan123

Yes. This can be confirmed by reading any comment from Japan, and to a lesser extent, from the West, on China's rising power right here in this U-tube website.

Why worry?: Because they think the Chinese people may revenge on what had been happening in the past 300 years of colonialism, when Japan and the West were trying to chop up China to pieces and divided it among themselves.

[barrhavener]

One mistake !

Dalai Lama is a Chinese (his title conferred to him by Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Republic of China before WW II). He had not became an Indian Citizen when he got the Nobel Peace Prize.

Also he mentioned the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Charles K. Kao, a Nobel Prize winner too, was the Vice-Chancellor and is a permanent residence of Hong Kong.

Therefore, Lui Xiaobo is not the first nor only the Chinese Citizen to get the Nobel Prize.

[TheSalmonfan]

@barrhavener

Charles K Kao is a US citizen, he also possibly holds UK citizenship that makes him legally impossible a holder of Chinese citizenship. A permanent resident of HK doesn't necessarily mean he's a Chinese citizen.

[barrhavener]

@TheSalmonfan

I know Charles K Kao is a US Citizen. But as long serving Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he also holds consultant position with the Chinese Government in Beijing in drafting the Base Law. Afterall, we are talking about SOFT POWER here. The "hard copy" of a passport is actually irrelevant.

Do you know that any permanent residence of Hong Kong will be considered as Chinese citizen as per the Chinese-British agreement in 1997.

[TheSalmonfan]

@barrhavener When you're defeated, you have to submit yourself to my intellectual superiority. Looking for all kinds of excuses or defiance is not going to earn you any credits in any debate. I'm talking about the legality here, not your mother's nonsense of hard copy or soft copy. Any foreign citizenship holders can not be a Chinese citizen as the PRC does not recognize dual citizenships, period.

[TheSalmonfan]

@barrhavener

And Dalai Lama does not have to be a Chinese citizen ! He could be a stateless man !

Oh, you are not dumb enough to consider all persons of Chinese origin are Chinese citizens, are you? On more than one occasions, I've seen ethnic Chinese from Singapore refused to identify themselves as Chinese ( they would feel insulted if you called them Chinese).