Soft power Flashcards
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Liu Xiaobo
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- In 2008 made Charter 8, more than 300 signatures (more human rights, democratic elections, freedom of speech)
- sentenced on 25 December 2011 for 11 years for “initiating subversion of government”
- received Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, in response wife under house arrest
- 2011, letter collected 134 laureate signatures to release Liu
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Ai Weiwei
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- arrested 3 April, 2011
- detention for 3 months for “tax evasion”
- worldwide support
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Foreign journalists
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- Al-Jazeera correspondent Melissa Chan expelled from China in May 2012, Beijing bureau closed
- New York Times not allowed to attend 17th Party Congress, website blocked
- journalist Chris Buckley denied visa in December 2012 after spending 15 years in China for writing story about Wen Jiabao’s family wealth
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External publicity work (media)
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- spending on external publicity was $8.9 billion in 2009-10
- CCTV supplies 24 hours free or highly subsidized news feeds to poor news orgs.
- in many languages (Russian, English, Arabic launched in 2009)
- China Radio International 24-hour broadcast
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Failures in soft power
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- government attempts rarely credible - must build attractive civil society
- disaster relief is most effective way to give a “soft edge” to military force used on Phillipines (initially gave $100,000 for typhoon Haiyan, Aus gave $30 million), now pledged $1.6 million, less than IKEA “revealing to other countries the limits of Chinese friendship.” according to Phillip Swagel, a former assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department “ illustrates the blundering nature of its foreign policy,”
