Hoist the Chinese Soft Power - Political Forum

wewe--00 · 02-04-2007, 03:50 AM

CNS January 29 -- Singapore's "Joint Report" published today, entitled "China pushing the world toward soft competition," the commentary said. In recent years, China's Confucius, sports and film stars, the panda, manned spacecraft. Many different persons and so on the Three Gorges Dam, in the international community have created a powerful Chinese soft power. The article pointed out that in the blind pursuit of hard power, balancing tough international competition, promote healthy competition in the international soft power '+document.title+'

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary · 02-04-2007, 10:10 PM

China says that it rejects "hard power" (bombs and missiles). However, I don't believe it. No country who has hard power, ever rejects hard power. Countries only reject hard power, when it is not in their interests to use hard power. That includes the United States, Europe and Russia.

China has very little hard power right now, so of course it is easy for them to say that they reject the use of hard power. Once China's economy grows some more, I expect China to develop as much hard power as the United States.

Luke · 02-05-2007, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois

China says that it rejects "hard power" (bombs and missiles). However, I don't believe it. No country who has hard power, ever rejects hard power. Countries only reject hard power, when it is not in their interests to use hard power. That includes the United States, Europe and Russia.

China has very little hard power right now, so of course it is easy for them to say that they reject the use of hard power. Once China's economy grows some more, I expect China to develop as much hard power as the United States.

I don't agree with the last sentence. Chinese mentality is very different from American mentality. Americans are more or less influenced by Christian monotheism missionary spirit, which propelled America to act more aggressively in global affairs. However, Chinese are always inward looking. The majority of Chinese won't care what is happening in the other parts of the world.

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary · 02-06-2007, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Luke

I don't agree with the last sentence. Chinese mentality is very different from American mentality. Americans are more or less influenced by Christian monotheism missionary spirit, which propelled America to act more aggressively in global affairs. However, Chinese are always inward looking. The majority of Chinese won't care what is happening in the other parts of the world.

I don't agree with this comment for a multitude of reasons. The US "mentality" is not Christian monotheism. It is national self-interest. All nations on the planet generally operate according to that principle. Of course, China says it is different, but that is because it serves their interest to do so. China's technology is very weak right now. They couldn't even build engines for their fighters. They are still working on that. So, does China actually have a choice but to say that it's policy is for peace?