POLSCI 2I03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cultural Diplomacy, Hard Power, Soft Power
25 Sep 2013
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Perceptions of china within us: china has been often looked as something of a threat. They see the rise of china as the rise of soviet union in post-war world. There is a lot of money put in to it. The perceptions amongst the many elites within us and europe is that china is little unchanged since the cold war. There is also the perception, the iconic photograph of june 1949, the tiananmen square massacre of university student in front of the tank. War youth thought they could change the chinese government. The image was seemingly steered into the minds of statesperson of europe, us, and canada and they think of china like that, untouched and unchanged. But china does not look like that anymore. If you look at the world through the hobbesian view, you will look at china as the next soviet power. But china does not look anything like the nazi germany and soviet union.
