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Why the US and European Countries Feel Uncomfortable with China’s “New Diplomatic Style”
Sun Haichao · 33 ·
China has long been the victim of prejudice and misunderstanding by mainstream public opinions in the US and Europe. While facing COVID-19 raging in the world, the US and some European countries pointed their fingers at China, which has seriously affected the trust between the countries. This paper analyzes the reasons behind the formation of the negative attitudes of the US and some European countries and expounds China’s attitudes and stand on the issue, aiming to provide help for increasing trust and resolving the disputes between China and the US and some European countries, and also to push forward world peace and development.
The New Trend of China’s Hot Issue Diplomacy
Cui Xiaotao • 41 •
In recent ten years, China’s hot issue diplomacy has made new progress in both practice and theoretical development, which not only has been driven by the transformation of China’s diplomatic strategy, but also the need to both safeguard China’s national interests and respond to expectations of the international community. China’s active diplomacy on hot issues has been conducive to not only safeguarding the national interests and enhancing national soft power, but also promoting transformation of the global security governance as well as major power diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. China should keep on focusing on strengthening the exploration and development of hot issue diplomacy theory with Chinese characteristics, improving such diplomatic mechanism, enhancing capability of confronting and dealing with international hot issues and strengthening the guidance of international public opinion, so as to better carry out hot issue diplomacy.
Corporate Diplomacy and Capability Enhancement
Ke Yinbin • 48 •
In this paper, the communication, exchanges, dialogue, negotiation, cooperation and other behaviors taken by multinational corporations towards non-market stakeholders and international organizations of the host countries are collectively referred to as public diplomacy of multinational corporations, or in short, corporate diplomacy. The paper mainly discusses the elements of corporate diplomacy as well as the ways to improve the capability of corporate diplomacy.
The Changing Characteristics of China-Japan Relations at Different Periods of Time
Yu Zhirong • 55 •
It has been 47 years since China and Japan resumed the normalization of diplomatic relations in the early 1970s. During the period, the relationship between the two countries has been unstable, being good and bad at varying times. Generally speaking, it can be divided into three phases: the honeymoon period from the 1970s to the 1990s, mainly marked by Japan’s economic assistance to China through ODA and the joint investigation of the Kuroshio in marine science and technology cooperation; the period from the 1990s to the first ten years of the 21st century which can be called a period of antagonism, mainly marked by the Fishing Boat Incident on September 7th of 2010 and the farce of purchasing the Diaoyu Island of Japanese Right-Wing in 2012; the last period from 2014 to today, during which the relationship between the two countries has been turning from confrontation to dialogue, from competition to cooperation, from containment to cooperation, with a general good development trend.
Britain’s Diplomacy after Brexit
Guo Hailong & Xu Hongxia • 64 •
For a long time, Britain has been a big power. Yet, it carries characteristics of a sub-power. After Brexit, it will further move towards being a sub-power. Britain’s diplomacy, bearing a historical continuity, will hold on with the traditions of pragmatism, geopolitical balance as well as Atlanticism. And Britain’s diplomacy will also make adjustments at three levels respectively: the EU-US-UK triangular relation as the primary one; the emerging economies as a key one; and the global realm with the Commonwealth countries as representatives. Britain’s diplomacy will still take the relations with the US and Europe as a priority. By taking advantage of the current good development trend in the China-UK relations, China should make full use of the “golden age” of the China-UK relations and push forward the bilateral relations from the current bilateral economic and trade relations focusing mainly on finance to an all-round development. Meanwhile, China should be alert to “the tactic of destruction through overpraising” and be prepared for any challenges in case the UK chooses abruptly to totally stand along with the US.
