which appeal to developing countries and on the counterpart, more popular theories are “China threat theory” and collapse theory”, especially highlighted by G.W. Bush in his first term “China of presidency, when the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threat China as a rival. These realities cause attention from Chinese authorities that model of development” may “Chinese cause uneasiness worldwide and presumably the foremost reason for China to improve its reputation and national image in the international scene. Looking through the China’s diplomacy and foreign policy in the past three decades could also get some hints on the shift from hard power to soft power: good neighbor diplomacy” ( 1980s “ and early 1990s), power diplomacy”(late 1990s), diplomacy”, power “great “energy “soft diplomacy”, diplomacy”(2000s) as well as rise” and development” “public “peaceful “peaceful not only these national strategies, but also by advertising Chinese values and publicizing its culture, some other efforts as steps to attract international students and promote the study of Chinese language. Nowadays , even it could be easily to find some evidence that supports the improvement of applying soft power and spreading China’s national image and even we could find the encouraging change from Professor Joseph Nye of Harvard University, who is first raise up the term of power”, whose attitude from previously downplaying the strengthening of “soft China’s soft power as being a development for the future in his book to now in Soft Power(2004) arguing that China’s soft power is rapidly growing in Asia in his article published in the Wall on December 29, 2005. But the mainstream assessment of the state of Street Journal (Asia) China’s soft power by Chinese analysts is that soft power is still a weak link in China’s pursuit for a stronger comprehensive national power because the Chinese discourse on soft power has mainly focused on its sources and potential utility in Chinese foreign strategy. Accordingly, the research poses the question: How does China build its national image by using and enhancing the soft power in its peaceful strategy?
which appeal to developing countries and on the counterpart, more popular theories are “China threat theory” and “China collapse theory”, especially highlighted by G.W. Bush in his first term of presidency, when the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threat China as a rival. These realities cause attention from Chinese authorities that “Chinese model of development” may cause uneasiness worldwide and presumably the foremost reason for China to improve its reputation and national image in the international scene. Looking through the China’s diplomacy and foreign policy in the past three decades could also get some hints on the shift from hard power to soft power: “ good neighbor diplomacy” ( 1980s and early 1990s), “great power diplomacy”(late 1990s), “energy diplomacy”, “soft power diplomacy”, “public diplomacy”(2000s) as well as “peaceful rise” and “peaceful development” not only these national strategies, but also by advertising Chinese values and publicizing its culture, some other efforts as steps to attract international students and promote the study of Chinese language. Nowadays , even it could be easily to find some evidence that supports the improvement of applying soft power and spreading China’s national image and even we could find the encouraging change from Professor Joseph Nye of Harvard University, who is first raise up the term of “soft power”, whose attitude from previously downplaying the strengthening of China’s soft power as being a development for the future in his book in Soft Power(2004) to now arguing that China’s soft power is rapidly growing in Asia in his article published in the Wall Street Journal (Asia) on December 29, 2005. But the mainstream assessment of the state of China’s soft power by Chinese analysts is that soft power is still a weak link in China’s pursuit for a stronger comprehensive national power because the Chinese discourse on soft power has mainly focused on its sources and potential utility in Chinese foreign strategy. Accordingly, the research poses the question: How does China build its national image by using and enhancing the soft power in its peaceful strategy?
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