Over the last five years, China has laid the groundwork to become an international power. It has done so not only with high-level diplomacy but also through the tools of soft power: aid, investment, culture and skilled diplomacy. This charm offensive has proved remarkably successful. But as some countries try to model China's success, it may backfire.
Carnegie launched a new policy brief on China’s ASAT by Senior Associate Ashley J. Tellis. Jessica T. Mathews, Carnegie president, introduced the panel, which featured Dr. Tellis as the presenter, Dr. Michael D. Swaine, Senior Associate in Carnegie’s China program, and Dr. Peter Hays, Senior Policy Analyst with the Science Applications International Corporation, as discussants.
In a provocative new policy brief, Ashley Tellis challenges the conventional wisdom that China’s antisatellite test (ASAT) was a protest against U.S. space policy, arguing instead that it was part of a loftier strategy to combat U.S. military superiority and one that China will not trade away in any arms-control regime.
This talk included Bernard Chan and Stephen Cheung with Carnegie Endowment’s Vice President for Studies, Mark Medish, as moderator. C.Y. Leung joined for the Q&A period.
Since 2005, when then-Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick urged China to become a “responsible stakeholder,” policymakers have tried to determine what criteria define responsible stake-holding and whether China is meeting them.
China’s soft power policy is fueled by pragmatism. Ideology has a very limited role.
Carnegie Senior Associate Albert Keidel presented his research sponsored by the Ford Foundation on China’s Economic Fluctuations and their Implications for the Rural Economy.
Trade policy is a major source of friction in the U.S.-China relationship – so much so that the facts are sometimes obscured by rhetoric. Do China’s violations of international trade norms merit a U.S. response, and if so what actions should the U.S take?
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. And though much has been written of China’s rise, a crucial aspect of this transformation has gone largely unnoticed: the way that China is using soft power to appeal to its neighbors and to distant countries alike.