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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