China… JR’s China Soft Power Summary, July 2012 23 Aug 2012 This guest post comes to SinoMondiale via JustRecently. It's frequently hard to believe for a nationalist that his or her country may not project as much "soft power" abroad as…
Art… Cultural Power Battle Threads 3 Jan 20123 Jan 2012 - The Telegraph reports in alarmist fashion about Hu Jintao warning, as the newspaper headline puts it, of "cultural warfare from the West" - A closer examination of the story…
Chinese communist party… The Dalai Lama in Toulouse: On Soft Power, Le Pen, and Unfallen Shoes 4 Sep 2011 Back in July, while on a late-night stroll through the 5th Arrdondisment looking for Rue Oberkampf, I chanced upon an announcement of the Dalai Lama's mid-August trip to Toulouse, France,…
American Foreign Policy… Kevin Garnett’s Chinese Blog 17 May 201117 May 2011 Boston Celtics superstar Kevin Garnett, I found out yesterday from undisclosed sources, has been maintaining a bilingual (English-Chinese) basketball blog which is very, very popular in the PRC. As described…
American Foreign Policy… Trashing Diplomatic Etiquette, or Just Empty Cannon Shots? Huanqiu Shibao Weighs in on Clinton’s ‘Fool’s Errand’ Comment 16 May 201116 May 2011 There has been an immense amount of action which has occurred in the U.S.-China relation in the past week, actions about which, being on several "fool's errands" of my own,…
Art… Analysing the Limits of Soft Power in the Case of Ai Weiwei: Der Tagesspiegel 15 Apr 201116 Apr 2011 As promised, I am working my way through some of the prolix torrent of analysis and concern levied upon the case of Ai Weiwei by authors in Germany, and by…
Japan… Japanese Departures 2 Jun 20102 Jun 2010 Thanks to the clarion calls of the immortal James Brown, it has become clear: I'm back, and Yukio Hatoyama has indeed "gotten up off of that thing," relieving pressure by…
Cultural Politics… Confucius Institute Outreach to DPRK 18 Feb 2010 North Korea's relations with China haven't gotten much press lately, outside of reports that the diplomatic staff at the DPRK Embassy in Beijing are being shuffled, along with more rumors…
American Foreign Policy… China-Iran-Russia: Geopolitics and Soft Power 12 Dec 2009 Via Professor Juan Cole's groundbreaking Informed Comment website, an illustrated commentary on Sino-Iranian relations by Pepe Escobar in France (in English): Then, via Al Jezeera's English service, a short report…
Chinese Avant-Garde… Soft Power Fiddling Meets Open-Throat Singing: Big Goings-On in New York 26 Oct 200926 Oct 2009 Yesterday the Sunday New York Times suddenly became worth its asking price of $6 by carrying a large advertisement laying out the immense variety of China-related musical activites going on…
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