China China and the Strategic Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic April 7, 2020 0 Image Credit: COVID-19 by Silvision/Flickr, License: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Neil Munro. The COVID-19 Pandemic has strategic implications with which military planners, political leaders,…
Africa China’s media presence in Africa is growing fast. Is its influence growing at the same pace? August 29, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by goodwines/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. By Dani Madrid-Morales. In a 2018 report entitled ‘China’s Pursuit of a New World Media Order’, Reporters…
Taiwan Is this the “China Dream”? March 7, 2019 0 Written by Robert S. Wang. On 5 February 2019, Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) published an article entitled “PLA bombers, jet fighters in…
China The Arctic White Paper and China’s Arctic Strategy February 12, 2018 1 Written by Jichang Lulu. The Arctic White Paper released last week (中国的北极政策, China’s Arctic Policy) is perhaps the first unified presentation of the PRC’s Arctic…
China Selling China in the South Pacific: is anyone buying? March 29, 2016 0 Written by Graeme Smith. As the game show If You Are The One proves, soft power may emanate from China despite the Chinese government. Although contestants…
China All that Glitters is Not Gold: The Limits of China’s Soft Power March 28, 2016 0 Written by Shogo Suzuki. China’s soft power offensive has garnered a lot of attention in recent years. In line with the ubiquitous narratives worrying about the…
Internet The ‘Voluntary Fifty-Cent Army’ in Chinese Cyberspace February 29, 2016 0 Written by Rongbin Han. On October 15, 2014, President Xi Jinping met and lauded Zhou Xiaoping and Hua Qianfang at the high-profile “Forum on Literature and…
China From Cairo to Chongqing: Global vs. Local Histories of the Second Sino-Japanese War in the PRC August 21, 2015 0 Written by Adam Cathcart and Wankun Li. Urged on by Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its arts, scholarship, and regional bureaucracies have gone…
Chinese media China’s state media and the outsourcing of soft power July 15, 2015 0 Written by Jichang Lulu. "Foreign shill," muttered someone, while an Australian reporter addressed the head of the People's Bank at a press conference. The Melbourne-based…
China Bleak times for foreign media in China July 6, 2015 0 Written by Raymond Li. China is the largest media market in the world, and therefore attracts many foreign media companies which flock into the country on…