The Rise of China's Soft Power

The Rise of China's Soft Power
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 08:00PM
More video info at iop.harvard.edu/node/2003

[@rudytruly2669]

I love Ada Ho.. She openly declared she is from Hong Kong -CHINA!

[@willng247]

She’s like a robot. Look left look right look left look right. 😁

[@lordlee6473]

From 2006, that’s a really old video. In China, things move at light speed. Even one month will make a huge difference, let alone 15 years.

[@choegyal100]

The future of the China-US relations depends on whether the United States can accept China's peaceful rise and whether it recognizes that the Chinese people have the right to pursue a better life.

[@mohawk548]

While China binge build all the times , the rest of the world binge watch most of the times .

Not only watching, keep pocking and smear at China too.

[@GrandeProjects]

I think it's almost irrelevant if China achieves a kind of democracy that suits the rest of the world, if it works for them and the majority of people are content what more can you ask for? I live in a democracy and it doesn't really make much difference in my day-to-day life as long as no one's trying to arrest me for no reason, and I have food and employment, and I'm free to walk around travel as I please etc.. democracy is just a word westerners love to through around, just like "human rights", but wetern nations do not walk the talk, they prefer to dominate and exploit, history proves this.

[@jianx20011]

By 2021 China gained much more respect than US l

[@jjackmanster]

The past 20 years have been a difficult time for the US. The Trump experience was an abberation. Democracy provides the opportunity to refresh. History must be revealed by historians. What was going on in Beijing in My at and June 1989? It is disgraceful to call it the "June 4th incident". Why is the CCP afraid of the whole truth?

[@jianx20011]

@@jjackmanster By 2021 the world is different China is different US can’t handle the truth

[@jeffreylo9203]

The soft-power of China is based on ancient philosophy and concept of the martial art, Tai Chi using the inner strengths of humans to repel the physical aggression of the enemy. Tai Chi took decades and centuries to develop and advance, it’s therefore not easy for the West to understand and appreciate. To describe China as being ‘assertive’, ‘aggressive’ is a misfit of description and shows its lack of understanding of the strengths of China with centuries of civilisation, history and culture. Suffice to say, China didn’t exist just in the last 30-40 years.

[@jeltan7887]

Agree.

[@jianx20011]

US is too big headed to learn or to understand other cultures

[@lowkiasoon]

Because west can’t believe CCP can do a good job without using west template

[@ytout]

I think the West has to accept there are more than one way to achieve any goal. It is not workable if the West keeps insisting that the way democracy has to be defined by the West standard. In fact, there is some degree of selfishness without the consideration of others, such as does my freedom interferes with or takes away the freedom of others.

[@teongbengang9515]

China's for peace, understanding, mutual respect and equality.

[@atulchandra7384]

This is the most barefaced lie of the century

[@zhizheng9489]

what''s happing is that most African countries are looking at the east rather than the west. You are living in the last century

[@atulchandra7384]

@@zhizheng9489 Sure, and Mao was a sage non-violence and moon is made of cheese

[@TheClickatsh]

@@atulchandra7384 wow you are from the 18th century

[@atulchandra7384]

@@TheClickatsh China is trying to do a 18th century act in 21st century with its Han Supremacist and Imperialist pretensions.

[@hardysonchen]

we need good cam here, i feel like watching vhs tape from the 80's here.

[@kshen7485]

Since 40 China has been successfully learning from the west, especially USA, and achieving dramatically. Now it is time for the west to learn from the east civilization, especially China.

[@yl6908]

2006? That was an eon ago. Given the rapid change in China, I hardly think a talk happened in 2016 was relevant anymore.

[@marlyntyzzer3919]

Don't you see that what they discussed is still relevant today? The West still do not understand China. The Chinese know more about the West than the other way around, that is why it would be great if more students from the West would go to study in China. Also, the West wanted and expected China to copy them and their democratic systems of government blindly, but when China chooses to be themselves by following their own culture, circumstances and characteristics, the West just cannot accept it. That's the huge problem!?! This video has voices of pragmatism and moderation. Since then, the rhetoric has been more war-like with lots of fake news and exaggerations perpetuated by mainstream western media. The world wants Peace, Not War!!!

[@thomasho4825]

I like to ask the panel how many war that is thought by US after the World War II

[@victoews6842]

Hypocrisy vs meritocracy

[@646Lim]

Agree

[@michaelchow8023]

Wow you summed it up too well

[@QuietJagung]

People's democracy versus corporate democracy.

[@tsteh3570]

why are discussions about china are always headed by westerners? let's have more Chinese China experts with varied points of view.

[@BLUESKY10X]

I have all scholar degrees "required" and worked hands-on in 6 coutries, being 1/2 decade in Asia, including China and Japan. And one problem I see all the time, as I discussed recently in a Council of Foreign Relations group, is that despite of their high professional status (Ambassadors, int'l relations experts, Havard wizards etc), they never spent a long time (>1 year) totally immersed in the local communities. Even lining in foreign countries, they still carry their original culture bias, do not detach (forget) their "birth-right" and keep looking things based on those root-knowledges. Am sure that many of the world's conflicts are a result (if not intentional) of this conditioned narrow view. This understanding can NOT be acquired thru books or in the prestigious benches of a Harvard-like University. If am wrong, why despite of the ever-expanding academic knowledge and tools (that are usef by built Goverments), the world is more polarized and involved in all sorts of disputes, as ever? A very high price to pay for not having a global harmony.

[@alfredyap14]

This event was done at a time of US-China honeymoon

[@Hmyt-yucca]

You can’t expect China systems to be on par with US in every aspect, US has had more than 250 yrs evolution, where new China still in early evolution process

[@fengzhu9263]

Yes,please let China develop peacefully

[@christineyoung8345]

What is the evolution process? How the future develops does not only depend on the current state of affairs, but how countries develop. US has never developed at the speed of China.

[@andrewmah5605]

Sony used to buy copyrights. Even in Sweden today, Protected copy Rights are can be bought and Sold. The Soul Brothers !

[@wzhang318]

I am little disappoint on this conference of Harvard Kennedy. I don't see there are couple of challengeable questions and sharp answers. All professors, students and Scholars provide general and "politically fair" answers. If my English is fluent and good enough, I can provide better answers than they do.

[@andrewmah5605]

How did "Overseas Kuwaiti" also accused Saddam Soldiers Threw Kuwait babies out of incubators onto the Floor ! 😭😭😭😈😈😈

[@jianx20011]

Tiwen is part of China please learn some history

[@atulchandra7384]

Taiwan is an independent country facing the colonialist violent China

[@Bhoetuk]

Taiwan is an independent country and CCP has no business to interfere in the internal matters of Taiwan. The PRC always say, that Taiwan is part of China, Tibet is part of China, Xinjiang is part of China and Hong Kong is part of China, but when it comes to the origin of CCP Wuhan Virus, it is not part of China. What is missing here is the honesty and what we see is CCP‘s naked LIE.

[@jianx20011]

@@Bhoetuk because you are not Chinese lol

[@marcs5117]

@@Bhoetuk heres 50 cents

[@winsonhan2187]

Time to discuss is American behaviours on the world stage.

[@mayrollins4363]

Ccp soft power. Power power power. Soft mean .stronger power.. Ccp doing China 🇨🇳government duty work!!!!!!

[@dmblum1]

Anything that comes out of Harvard is a load of crap.

[@JeffSmith-yk1xb]

why Harvard is rated a top university? this 15 year old video did not provide any insight when you view it 15 year later

[@JeffSmith-yk1xb]

Taiwan issue is civil war issue. It's not relevant to the soft power, soft power is About international Affairs.

[@greenlandconsulting]

The Hong Kong girl is too much a show woman

[@CaseyKTjang]

U.S. is not too "big" to learn other countries' culture. Americans by and large, in my view as an Cultural Anthropology reader, are simply ignorance and "big" only in perspective! I recalled one of the post graduate students who said that "Bali" is located somewhere in Caribbean? With utmost due respect to Rhode Scholars in U.S. many of them, of course, know all the answers BUT primarily from the western socio-political points of view which often misjudged the China's thousand years of culture. China and her people never consider the state authority from its culture. Martin Jacques said it well that China is cultural state and has never been a "Nation State". Hence, many western politician or so-called statemen like Machiavelli et al thatafter Europe had adopted the separation of church and state authority can only focus on China at the destruction

[@almightyyt2101]

Much love fot the Chiney ppl

[@sonylin7531]

It's too late and it's was yesterday

[@everibuddihellow6042]

covid soft power!

[@CaseyKTjang]

Adding to the below comments that Mao is truly a "hero" to Chinese people in the 20th century BUT he also a "Villain" to Chinese people who had single-handedly destroyed Chinese Culture by provoking "Cultural Revolution".

[@eileensun1328]

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[@AgusPcb]

The speaker from China has low capacity about China

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[@hansjohanoei5627]

Question : is it better for US and Europe and western European Countries, when China remaining poor like 40 years ago ?

[@jianx20011]

Black peoples didn’t learn Chinese culture before got there lol

[@jianx20011]

China is doing great by 2021 China’s people like to stay China much more than rest of world

[@stickitupyourasteric]

Says the Jew

[@Bhoetuk]

Advice to China‘s CCP: China has no soft power because of the ruthless and oppressive expansionist design. If China want soft power, you cannot buy this, but you have to earn it. ????

[@marcs5117]

Heres another 50 cents

[@Bhoetuk]

@@marcs5117 sorry I don‘t work for 50 cents, give it to your pla friends.