Posted by Will on May 1st, 2010
To listen to people moan about the fact that China has sixty “Confucius Centers” in the US to America’s zilch-nada in China you’d think the Chinese were wrapping up hearts and minds around the planet while America gets relegated to the public diplomacy junk-heap alongside the usual despotic malcontents. While I’ll concede that China has [...]
Posted by Will on March 4th, 2010
I’m speechless. (Note: This link has since been killed, but the ones below are still alive.)
Is this a new direction for Chinese soft-power? Does the China Daily know? They may have to get their pseudo-Italian-sex-fiend column or risk being left behind.
More here, if you must.
Update:
First, word has it that this was apparently sanctioned as part [...]
Posted by Will on February 28th, 2010
Among the circles that Imagethief runs in it is relatively fashionable to be completely disdainful of the Chinese English-language media. This is not entirely unfair. Chinese English-language news sources have their uses, but by comparison with most international news sources they can often seem amateurish and sloppy and they have a strange tendency to combine [...]