BRICS countries’ practice: cyber security and think tank cooperation
Zhao Ruiqi · 99 ·
Against the backdrop of the low efficiency of multilateral cooperation, the BRICS mechanism needs to keep pace with the times, better coordinate, further enhance opening up and freedom, and improve connectivity in order to play an effective role in the world. This requires practice of win-win cooperation step by step. Successful experiences from pilot programs will be summerized and promoted so as to change people’s cognitive habits, thinking inertia and behavior patterns and ultimately achieve unity and win-win cooperation. Think tank cooperation can be used as a pilot where innovation can be carried out regarding cooperation mechanisms and content building. The cooperation mechanism can be extended to other sectors, thus cooperation pattern and inertia can be formed. The urgency and importance of cyber security issue makes it a premier choice for think tanks from BRICS countries to cooperate on.
Flood of fake news in Europe and the U.S. and its enlightenment on how to carry out China’s public diplomacy
Xu Shaomin · 106 ·
The flood of fake news in Europe and the U.S. in 2016 attracted much attention from governments, media, technology enterprises and academics in those countries. At the end of the year, former U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Portman-Murphy Counter-Propaganda Bill just shortly before the end of his term. The bill included an extra budget for the United States Department of Defense to set up a coordinated counter-propaganda center to help America and its allies counter political rumors and fake news. The U.S. mentioned China as a major target in its counter-propaganda campaign, confusing China’s public diplomacy with other countries’ public opinions and information wars through fake news. This shows again that China’s public diplomacy towards the U.S. has a long way to go. Our obstacles are not really from the U.S. people but from the double standard of the American government and officials.
Research on public diplomacy of the U.S. military
Liu Yan · 112 ·
The United States was the first to conduct public diplomacy. Hence, abundant theories on public diplomacy and hands-on experiences are of American origin. The U.S. also initiated military public diplomacy. Studying U.S. military’s understanding of the concept of military public diplomacy, its process of intervention, its experiences and its existing problems can shed light on and provide references to the development of China’s own military public diplomacy.
Overall trend is good despite twists and turns - An analysis on Australian media reports on China
Zhu Wenbo · 118 ·
There has been a heated debate in the Australian media about taking side between either China or the U.S., against the backdrop of President Trump’s taking office, his announcement of the withdrawal from the Transpacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), hunging up on the Australian Premier Minister during a telephone conversation, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop’s unfriendly remarks about China and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang´s successful visit to Australia. The analysis shows that China-related reports in Australian media experienced three stages: gradually pro-China, swaying, and pro-China again; with a good overall trend despite twists and turns. Though complicated factors are now affecting the public opinion in Australia, this article predicts a (despite some twists) gradually improvement of public opinion about China in Australian media due to China’s increasing influence on Australia.
