Globalization and the information revolution have connected the world,making it easier for governments to communicate and influence foreign audiences.As rising state China has embraced,adapted,and increased the functi...Globalization and the information revolution have connected the world,making it easier for governments to communicate and influence foreign audiences.As rising state China has embraced,adapted,and increased the function of public diplomacy to influence international audiences in support of its objectives.Political scientist Joseph Nye wrote,“A communications strategy cannot work if it cuts against the grain of policy.Actions speak louder than words and public diplomacy that appears to be mere window dressing for hard power projection is unlikely to succeed”.Discussing about China’s strategy,it is important to communicate a disclaimer about China’s national objectives or grand strategy.The international community may feel threatened by China’s economic and military development and modernization and by China’s push to influence the international environment.However,China attempts to reassure the world through the strategic concept of“peaceful development”.China seeks to peacefully become a global power through economic development and modernization and to gain world acceptance of Chinese power.And in the period Gorbachev’s advocating perestroika and glasnost,journalists became the new hope of the Russian society who become the most important power of today Russian public diplomacy.展开更多
文摘Globalization and the information revolution have connected the world,making it easier for governments to communicate and influence foreign audiences.As rising state China has embraced,adapted,and increased the function of public diplomacy to influence international audiences in support of its objectives.Political scientist Joseph Nye wrote,“A communications strategy cannot work if it cuts against the grain of policy.Actions speak louder than words and public diplomacy that appears to be mere window dressing for hard power projection is unlikely to succeed”.Discussing about China’s strategy,it is important to communicate a disclaimer about China’s national objectives or grand strategy.The international community may feel threatened by China’s economic and military development and modernization and by China’s push to influence the international environment.However,China attempts to reassure the world through the strategic concept of“peaceful development”.China seeks to peacefully become a global power through economic development and modernization and to gain world acceptance of Chinese power.And in the period Gorbachev’s advocating perestroika and glasnost,journalists became the new hope of the Russian society who become the most important power of today Russian public diplomacy.
