2012 Public Perceptions & Opinion Survey
The re-establishment of US-China relations in 1971 marked a strategic step that ended China’s isolation and transformed the global balance of power. Since that historic milestone, the United States as...
View ArticlePros and cons of soft power
Chinese college students love American films and TV dramas but are also aware of the US’ hegemonic and seamy side. In this era of well-developed technology, it is possible to change our stereotype view...
View ArticleChina has no Shortage of Strategic Opportunities
Despite international exacerbation regarding the current global strategic environment and China’s peripheral environment, China still enjoys several promising opportunities today. On the one hand,...
View ArticleChina-US Relations—It Is Not A Game
The Summer Olympic Games are over. The XXXth Olympiad is in the record books. The symbolism of the “games” should not be lost on anyone. Soft power was being flexed along with bulging muscles. At the...
View ArticleWhat China and Russia Don’t Get About Soft Power
When Foreign Policy first published my essay “Soft Power” in 1990, who would have expected that someday the term would be used by the likes of Hu Jintao or Vladimir Putin? Yet Hu told the Chinese...
View ArticleWill Public Opinion Help China Supplant the World’s Superpower?
On July 18 of this year, the Pew Research Foundation released a survey that details how people around the world view China and the USA. Pew surveyed 37,653 people in 39 countries from March 2 to May...
View ArticleChina, US Vie for World Approval
The US-China rivalry is today’s defining geostrategic competition. Washington is currently the biggest kid on the block, and Beijing is the strapping new boy who just moved into the neighborhood. A...
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The Not So Tangible Export: Chinese Culture
Chinese culture continues to make a global splash. China and the U.S. are benefiting from and straining under 35 years of normalized relations. There have been tons of exports shipped from China to...
View ArticleGhosts of Imperialist Wars Past: China’s Tourist Hot Spots Today
After visiting China’s tourist hot spots, Doug Bandow explores how China’s history of subjugation under Western forces continues to shape the outlook of Chinese citizens and affects everything from the...
View ArticleDealing with the Scourge of “Schadenfreude” in Foreign Reporting on China
Is reporting on China in Western media influenced by “schadenfreude”? Stephen Harner answers this question by examining recent commentaries on China and explains why negative news about the country has...
View ArticleMr. Xi Comes to Washington
Philip Levy explains how elections and political transitions in the United States and China this year ratchet up the pressure on leaders and aspirants and make conciliation more difficult.
View ArticleThe Evolving Role of Sports Diplomacy
As we reflect on the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s trip to China, and Secretary Kissinger’s secret trip a year earlier that paved the way for this diplomatic breakthrough, it is easy to...
View ArticleThe Rise of a Great Nation Entails Cultural Prosperity
In his recent government work report, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has set the mission for facilitating substantial cultural progress and prosperity, noting that a nation's perpetuity depends on the...
View ArticleThe Predicaments of Chinese Power
To be a very powerful state in world politics does not make for an easy life. China increasingly realizes the predicaments it faces while its power has been growing rapidly. Indeed, the disturbance of...
View ArticleShould the World Fear Chinese Soft Power?
Tom Watkins examines the controversy surrounding China’s Confucius Institutes and provides an inside look at how the academic centers spread awareness of Chinese issues while promoting Chinese soft...
View ArticleLearning Different Ways of Thinking
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama highlighted the importance of education by stating that to win the future for the United States, "we also have to win the race...
View ArticleChina and Hollywood Cooperation to Expand
AS Hollywood's Christian Bale flew from Gotham City to China's ancient capital Nanjing, the Batman-turned priest, who is about to witness a massacre in World War II, also brought a new perspective to...
View ArticleHas China Lost Competitive Edge?
Although China's competitiveness has been rising over the years, its stellar economic performance could be masking other factors that prevent it from moving into the top league of the world's most...
View ArticleUS to Cut VOA Broadcasts in Chinese
Voice of America (VOA) plans to end all radio and TV broadcasts in Mandarin and Cantonese starting in October amid a budget cut plan announced by US President Barack Obama, reports said yesterday. The...
View ArticleMothers Superior: From China to France, It’s Childhood that Counts
One day, while driving through the suburbs of Los Angeles, my French husband noticed a bumper sticker on a car that read: "My child is a superstar at Kester Elementary School." He turned to me and...
View ArticleGetting the Language Right Helps Address Differences
Language plays an important role in international relations. Its function is not only for communication, but also for expressing the nuances of policy and strategic positions, whether they be favorable...
View ArticleBesides Achievements, Nine Challenges for Next Five Years
At the starting year of the 12th Five-Year Guideline, let us look back to the last Five-Year Guideline which was intended to promote institution advancement, sustainable society and so on, and see the...
View ArticleCongratulatory Messages from Tang Jiaxuan and Henry Kissinger
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan send congratulatory messages on the launch of China-US Focus, a news website that they believe will enhance the...
View ArticleWinston Lord’s Original Insight
The flying gusts that characterized U.S.-China diplomatic relations last year could be calmed by taking a few cues from the experiences of a seasoned observer Recently, President Hu Jintao's visit to...
View ArticleThe Financial Crisis and US-China Misperceptions
The decline of America and the ascendancy of China has become a popular theme, and nothing seemed to provide a clearer marker to those disposed to the idea than the financial crisis of 2008 and the...
View ArticleDid China Try to Blackmail Europe?
Last month news emerged that China was seriously considering buying sovereign bonds from distressed European economies—a move that could have buoyed financial markets giving Europe additional breathing...
View ArticleChanging Frames
Asian contemporary art is undergoing a transformation, the genre's first US curator says. Liu Lu reports. The first contemporary Asian art curator in the United States says the genre, and particularly...
View ArticleNew Mood may Encourage North Korea and US to Resume Six Party Talks
After almost a three year suspension of the Six Party Talks, there appears to be some new hope of a resumption. All six countries, particularly China, the US and North Korea, are stepping up diplomatic...
View ArticleBeing Wary of the Media’s Narrative on US-China Relations
The global issues plaguing the 21st century cannot be resolved effectively without greater cooperation from China and the US, says Banning Garrett of the Atlantic Council.
View ArticleWhy China Is Weak on Soft Power
China’s president, Hu Jintao, greeted 2012 with an important essay warning that China was being battered by Western culture: “We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the...
View ArticleCurrent and Coming China-US Exchanges in Christianity
An exclusive interview with Prof. Xu Yihua At the China-US Protestant Church Leaders Forum held in Washington D.C. near the end of September, 2011, Prof. Xu Yihua impressed both Chinese and American...
View ArticleHow Chinese and Americans Are Misreading Each Other — And Why It Matters
China-U.S. relations are at an important stage of mutual adjustment. We should ease this process by building up mutual understanding and people-to-people exchanges.
View ArticleCentral Asian Bazaars as A Soft Power of Beijing
China has emerged as the key trading partner of Central Asia—an accomplishment that is greatly due to Dordoi Bazaar’s success in the region. However, Beijing still has much work to do in order to...
View ArticleHollywood’s Soft Power Is Hard to Copy
At first glance, China’s latest Hollywood deal, Wanda Group’s purchase of Legendary Entertainment, is a hardware-software match made in box-office heaven. However, creative success is quirky, subject...
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