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China’s “Soft-Power Own Goals”: Stop Laughing, Start Thinking
Citing a number of issues in the news (see links there), Rectified Name states that China keeps scoring own goals in terms of soft power, when it comes to the question as to how to react to unwelcome...
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Shijiazhuang News Net: a Sketch from Space
From Xinhua, June 18, 2010, via Shijiazhuang News Net, June 19 – links within blockquotes added during translation. Main link: Literary sketch: Tiankong, my Beautiful Home (神九航天员进驻天宫一号速写,美丽的”天宫”我的家)...
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Soft Power: Go and Buy a Hat
After so much advice has been given to China’s dictators so far this year, as to how they could boost their (or their country’s, which is basically the same thing in their view) soft power1), JR does...
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Beijing’s Foreign Affairs: Don’t Mislead your Public Opinion – Cement it
- The following is a random choice, mostly from the Chinese foreign ministry’s (FMPRC) website. Emphasis within blockquotes by JR. - 1) (Then) FMPRC spokesman Liu Jianchao‘s comments on the US-China...
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The “Great Leap Forward”, Frank Dikötter, and a Blogging Break
It’s time for a few days’ break from blogging, unless Jiang Zemin passes away, Yang Rui gets uncovered as a spy for the CIA, or if similarly sensational news should break. I will be back to blogging by...
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Industrial Relations: RFE/RL Job Contracts under Criticism
Prague Daily Monitor, via Kim Andrew Elliot – ČTK, 5 June 2012 Prague, June 4 (CTK) – The Czech Helsinki Committee (CHV) criticised Monday the procedure by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)...
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Zhao Lingmin: Confucius Institutes, and the Three Layers of a Country’s Image
Nanfang People Weekly (南方人物周刊) is one of the papers published by the Nanfang News Media Group, or Southern Media Group. Other well-known papers would be Nanfang Weekend (Southern Weekend (南方周末), or –...
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People’s Daily editorial: Human-Rights Advocacy will Marginalize America
America needed to stop playing the role of a democracy preacher, a People’s Daily (人民日报) editorialist named Zhong Sheng (钟声 – this name or pen name also translates tolling of the bells) wrote on...
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China doesn’t object to Hegemonism – America Should
A signed People’s Daily editorial suggested on Thursday that America should play a more constructive role in Asia, and that America was in no position to grade Asian countries. The editorialist didn’t...
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Huanqiu / China News Service: Japanese Ambassador’s Trip to Tokyo reflects...
NHK Radio Japan reports that Japan’s ambassador to China has left Beijing for a brief return to Tokyo. The diplomat will report on China’s recent actions concerning the Senkaku Islands in the East...
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Hu Jintao’s Africa Forum Speech: Talent Exchange, People-to-People Diplomacy,...
Chinese party and state chairman Hu Jintao announced on the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation’s 5th ministerial-level meeting’s opening ceremony in Beijing on Thursday that China would provide 20...
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Communication Barriers: “Not just Someone from Chinatown”
Yang Fan (杨帆), a former representative of Chinese company Nuctech, asked Namibian High Court judge president Petrus Damaseb in June to provide him with a competent interpreter, not just someone from...
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“Political Confucianism” and the New York Times: Domestic Audience, Foreign...
Remarks made by U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton at Government House in Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia, on July 9, met with no friendly echo from Beijing. Clinton attended an International Women’s...
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Is this (German) Soft Power?
- - Maybe. Sort of. ____________ Related » Not so Spy, March 5, 2011 ____________ Filed under: Britain, France, Germany, international Tagged: Berlin, Britain, business, cars, communication, economy,...
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Sino-Russian Fishery Incident: An FMPRC Statement and its (apparent) Story
China News Service (CNS, 中新网) / Enorth, July 22, 2012, 07:04 Beijing time – Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Saturday evening that the incident of a Russian patrol boat that shelled Chinese...
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One Year after the Wenzhou Train Crash: an Editorial by People’s Daily
The accident is something we want to forget. If a local government were to plan a ceremony, that would bring shame on the Ministry of Railways. You surely understand that, don’t you? A senior Wenzhou...
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Patriotic Education in HK: “Foster a Sense of Affection”
The BBC found the Hong Kong public in a “restive” mood during party and state chairman Hu Jintao‘s recent visit to the territory, to mark the fifteenth anniversary of its handover, and cited some...
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A Popular History Reader, Implementing the Spirit of Comrade Jiang Zemin’s...
Main Link: Jiang Zemin writes Foreword, Emphasizes Learning from Chinese Naton’s Development History (Xinhua article’s headline) Xinhua, July 30, 2012 — To implement the spirit of Comrade Jiang Zemin’s...
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Syria: Annan resigns, Beijing hedges its Bets
- The Syrian government and opposition reacted to UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan‘s announcement that he would end his work by the end of the month, reports Xinhua: In a statement published...
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18th National Congress: a Responsibility outweighing Mount Taishan
The following is a translation of a People’s Daily commentary, published on Tuesday (local breakfast time), on the completed process of determining the 18th National Congress delegates (i. e. the...
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