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139827
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During Hu Jintao’s period of leadership, careful public diplomacy language was deployed by the People’s Republic of China from 2000–2012 to describe the international system and China’s role within it. The terms looked at in this analysis are those introduced in the 2000s to recalibrate the ‘multi-polarity’ [shijie duojihua] emphasis of the 1990s. These terms have been deployed within a general ‘reassurance diplomacy’ that emphasised concepts like ‘responsible Great Power’ [fuzeren da guo], ‘multi-lateralism’ [duobian zhuyi], ‘good neighbourhood policy’ [mulin zhengce], ‘democratisation of international relations’ [guoji guanxi mingzhuhua], ‘peaceful rise’ [heping jueqi], ‘peaceful development’ [heping fazhan] and ‘harmonious world’ [hexie shijie]. Ambiguities, implications, impact, and tensions surrounding these terms are considered, and China’s deliberate adjustments pinpointed. China’s soft power intentions emerge from its instrumentalist use of diplomatic rhetoric, though a credibility gap also emerged between actions and words by 2012.
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Since 2003, the Chinese government has launched a succession of public diplomacy campaigns and programmes, the dynamics, potentials and implications of which have drawn growing scrutiny from Chinese scholars and government officials. Based on document reviews and interviews with Chinese scholars, officials, and think tanks, however, this article finds that the focus of the existing literature is on the image China wishes to project to the outside world, and that there is still little consensus on the strategic motivations behind the country’s conduct of public diplomacy. In its conclusion, the article expounds that garnering international respect for China’s political and social system and respect domestically for its political legitimacy is what the Chinese government really cares about. This being the case, China will not be satisfied to be merely an emerging power in light of its greater ambition to rejuvenate its values and political system.
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