Isabel Hilton: 'China is using soft power to smooth her way'
http://comment.independent.co.uk/podium/article324016.ece
From a contribution by the author and journalist to an Intelligence
Squared debate on the rise of China, at the Royal Geographical Society,
London
Published: 02 November 2005
The West, with its ambitions, its economic and political ideas, has had
the power with the defeat, first of fascism, then communism, to set the
global agenda: the promotion of democracy, market economies and human
rights. (We can argue about how well it has lived up to these. But
let's say for now these were the public objectives.) The present regime
in China shares none of them. As China's power to set the global agenda
increases, these are the ideas that will decline.
China has felt keenly the humiliation of the last 150 years, when
powers that China felt were culturally inferior imposed their will on a
weakened and decadent imperial state. The restoration of China to her
"rightful" cultural station is as important to the Chinese sense of
national well being as her steadily growing GDP.
soft power
http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22soft+power%22&sa=N&tab=gn
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22soft+power%22&sa=N&tab=nw
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=+%22soft+power%22&sa=N&tab=wd&cat=gwd%2FTop
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=soft%20power&safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_scoring=d&lr=&num=100&hl=en
Isabel Hilton
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/97ee00974d6c30c3
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/59c28cd6dfe6f60f
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