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At first look, 135 Fuyou Street in Beijing might look like any other compound. However, this is where the office of the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party is located. This 200-meter-long building is basically China’s headquarters for promoting the Party’s narratives to the international community and developing the country’s soft power. ...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in 1949 in order to counter the threat of the Soviet Union. Decades later, the Soviet Union is no more. However, another major threat has arisen in its place — China. At a recent summit, NATO admitted for the first time in its history that China’s rise ...
Though China spends billions every year to boost its soft power abroad, the results are often not encouraging. However, the soft power of Chinese culture is spreading organically without any push from the state thanks to the growing popularity of Chinese online storytelling. Chinese online storytelling The history of online Chinese literature dates back to ...
The Chinese communist government focuses heavily on developing soft power, which is basically the ability to influence outsiders to admire your culture in hopes that they will align with your decisions. At the recent World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Chinese participants tried to push hard their country’s “soft power” in front of international visitors, revealing ...
The Chinese government has been pouring millions into its propaganda network to build a favorable image in the Western world. But a new survey by the Pew Research Center shows that all the money spent by Beijing is going to waste, as people in the West have an increasingly negative image of the communist nation. ...