Chapter 1: Building a Giant - or a Giant Failure?
Chapter 2: A Short Modern History of China's Soft- and Sharp-Power
Approaches
Chapter 3: The First Charm Offensive Sets the Stage for Today
Chapter 4: Motivations for China's Modern Influence Campaign
Chapter 5: Opportunities
Chapter 6: The Soft-Power Tool Kit: Media and Information Coming
Through the Front Door
Chapter 7: Xinhua and Content-Sharing Deals: A Success Story
Chapter 8: The Sharp-Power Tool Kit: Media and Information Slipping
Through the Back Door
Chapter 9: Controlling the Pipes
Chapter 10: Old Fashioned Influence
Chapter 11: China's Mixed Effectiveness
Chapter 12: A Path Forward: Pushing Back against China's
Information and Influence Activities
Joshua Kurlantzick is a Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Kurlantzick was previously a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he studied Southeast Asian politics and economics and China's relations with Southeast Asia, including Chinese investment, aid, and diplomacy. He is the author of five previous books on China and Southeast Asia.
In this deeply-researched, fair-minded and highly readable account,
Kurlantzick describes how China's attempt to create its own version
of Al Jazeera failed on account of the turgid content it produced
in an atmosphere of censorship.
*Denis Staunton, Irish Times*
Joshua Kurlantzick admits that much of China's international effort
fails to attract audiences more accustomed to rigorous and
convincing output. But, the author warns, China's leaders have
proven to be consistently adaptable. In a world in which democracy
appears ever more fragile, while media in liberal democracies
suffer the effects of a collapsing business model and interfering
proprietors, "telling China's story better" might prove to be
worryingly more effective in the future.
*Isabel Hilton, Times Literary Supplement*
Given that Xi has explicitly stated the need to boost China's
"discourse power," it is essential that targeted countries improve
their understanding of what China is doing and build resilience
within their societies, and Beijing's Global Media Offensive lays
out a helpful set of recommendations for doing so...Kurlantzick
also encourages democracies to double down on calling more
attention to what China is up to, especially in struggling
democracies. This book provides an excellent starting point for
these efforts.
*Kelley E. Currie, Journal of Democracy*
ambitious ... The author painstakingly draws on scores of
noteworthy studies and his own knowledge of Southeast Asia and
beyond to construct a driving narrative.
*Vivien Marsh*
Foreign information campaigns in and against the United States are
nothing new, but China's global effort is unprecedented in scale.
This detailed assessment brings the threat into focus and suggests
important ways to counteract it.
*John Bolton, Former US National Security Advisor (2018-2019) and
Former US Ambassador to the United Nations (2005-2006)*
A highly illuminating narrative and a remarkable articulation of
how China builds sharp power around the world and wield influence
especially in developing countries. The book is a must-read for
anyone trying to understand China's global information
campaign.
*Yun Sun, Director of China Program, the Stimson Center*
In Beijing's Global Media Offensive, Joshua Kurlantzick has
produced a lucid and penetrating investigation into the history,
theory, and practice of China's global influence efforts. He shows
that behind a veil of 'non-interference' in other nations' internal
affairs, Beijing engages in a growing range of open and covert
efforts to make friends, influence people, and shape foreign
nations in ways supportive of its increasing global ambitions.
Kurlantzick knows this terrain well, detailing the challenge posed
by China's global media and influence efforts, and what the
democratic world can do in response. Essential reading for a
dawning era of superpower competition.
*Sebastian Strangio, Southeast Asia editor at The Diplomat and
author of In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese
Century*
This is a truly important book. Full of thoughtful insights and
copious details, Joshua Kurlantzick has produced the missing link
in our understanding of one of the most underappreciated
geopolitical phenomena of our time: China's use of media and
information tools to present itself to the world in a benign light
while undermining the United States and other liberal democracies.
Kurlantzick leads the way for an important reconsideration of how
political motivations, rather than economic concerns, are now the
main driver behind China's international engagement.
*Joshua Eisenman, Associate Professor of Politics in the Keough
School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame*
Kurlantzick has written a very comprehensive, accessible and timely
account of China's efforts to expand its global media influence
that will be of interest to anyone seeking a better understanding
of China's rise to great power status.
*Amitav Acharya, International Affairs*
A very comprehensive, accessible and timely account of China's
efforts to expand its global media influence that will be of
interest to anyone seeking a better understanding of China's rise
to great power status.
*Amitav Acharya, International Affairs*
Joshua Kurlantzick's new book is a timely contribution that arrives
at a crucial juncture.
*Hangwei Li, Asian Affairs 54.2*
In this deeply-researched, fair-minded and highly readable account,
Kurlantzick describes how China's attempt to create its own version
of Al Jazeera failed on account of the turgid content it produced
in an atmosphere of censorship.
*Denis Staunton*
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