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The Beijing Olympics, the Shanghai Expo, the hundreds of Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms, and Beijing’s new English-language satellite news networks are all part of a grand Chinese soft power push: an effort to win the world through attraction rather than coercion. But how is China’s charm offensive playing around the world?

Winter Olympics have left little room for China to showcase its national image and burnish its reputation, with organisers settling for ‘simple, safe and splendid’.

The Chinese capital makes history next week when it becomes the first city to host both a Summer and Winter Games. From Eileen Gu’s bid to win 3 gold medals, to the Omicron and political tensions, follow us for comprehensive coverage of the 2022 Olympics.

For six decades, this quintessentially British character has forged a strong relationship with the continent.

Donald Trump’s Asia trip was historic in one respect: it belatedly focused American attention on the competition between the United States and China for global primacy. China has risen, the era of uncontested American leadership has ended, and any American with a television set now knows it—thanks to the media’s proper framing of Trump’s and Chinese Communist Party Secretary

As the coronavirus spreads globally, China’s government is working aggressively to change its international image. In the span of just a few weeks, China has gone from the embattled epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic to presenting the country as an experienced, charitable international player seeking to stem a worldwide pandemic. On a darker side, Chinese diplomats are

America and China, each behaving in self-interest, might not cooperate even when it makes sense to do so.

The Wanda Group, China’s leading real estate developer, on Monday paid $3.5 billion for a controlling stake in Hollywood studio Legendary Entertainment, maker of Jurassic World, among other global blockbusters. At a time when Hollywood is increasingly reliant on Chinese moviegoers for ticket sales, should we be concerned that Chinese investment will reshape the creative cradle

It’s long been said that while China may have an Africa policy, Africans do not have a China policy. In particular, too many Africans do not understand the language, culture, and politics of their new number one trading partner. The University of Botswana, for its part, is trying to change that. UB has one of the most ambitious Chinese studies programs in Africa. Dr.

There seems little doubt, then, that Russia is a great power. But what does this mean for the United States?