Power

Alex Mackinnon and Barnaby Powell

Chapter Chapter 6 in China Counting, 2010, pp 105-111 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract While the world would thrust the status of Great Power on China in the somewhat desperate hope that it will take up some of the world’s locomotive slack, apparently over 80 per cent of the Chinese people don’t believe or want to be involved in this. How can we be a Da Guo (Great Country), they say, when our per capita GDP is one-twentieth that of the UK. The political flashpoint events in Darfur and Lhasa and the Olympic torch relay protests in London, Paris and San Francisco in 2008 made the Chinese fl inch and recoil in shock and outrage in the face of unprecedented close encounters with the weight and strength of international feeling. Tensions have since been eased in part by a mightily successful Olympic Games in Beijing and the first-hand contacts these generated.

Keywords: Soft Power; Main Strand; Private Expectation; Public Diplomacy; Confucius Institute (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230251038_7

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