Haunted by ParentsAt the beginning of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. And though much has been written of China's rise, a crucial aspect of this transformation has gone largely unnoticed: the way that China is using soft power to appeal to its neighbours and to distant countries alike. This original book is the first to examine the significance of China's recent focus on soft power, that is, diplomacy, trade incentives, cultural and educational exchange opportunities, and other techniques, to project a benign national image, pose as a model of social and economic success, and develop stronger international alliances. Drawing on years of experience tracking China's policies in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa, Joshua Kurlantzick reveals how China has wooed the world with a charm offensive that has largely escaped the attention of American policymakers. Beijing's new diplomacy has altered the political landscape in Southeast Asia and far beyond, changing the dynamics of China's relationships with other countries. China also has worked to take advantage of American policy mistakes, the author contends. In a provocative conclusion, he considers a future in which China may be the first nation since the Soviet Union to rival the U.S. in international influence. |
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... intense yearning, “Please dear, take me out to the green meadows! I want to see the gar- den and the flowers.” I felt she might have been remembering the meadows of her youth, wanting perhaps to die in the gar- den of her childhood in ...
... intense yearning, “Please dear, take me out to the green meadows! I want to see the gar- den and the flowers.” I felt she might have been remembering the meadows of her youth, wanting perhaps to die in the gar- den of her childhood in ...
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... intense hatred that denies part of the other's humanity , or defensive indifference — the other reduced to a statistic or a cat- egory . I will illustrate a range of depths of knowing that shows an increasing ability to empathize — to ...
... intense hatred that denies part of the other's humanity , or defensive indifference — the other reduced to a statistic or a cat- egory . I will illustrate a range of depths of knowing that shows an increasing ability to empathize — to ...
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... intense narcissistic level of owning was an addi- tion suggested by Dr. Lee Grossman . 7There is a compulsion to repeat these defenses . I have observed that some patients talk about a traumatic “ memory ” and then follow with “ Maybe I ...
... intense narcissistic level of owning was an addi- tion suggested by Dr. Lee Grossman . 7There is a compulsion to repeat these defenses . I have observed that some patients talk about a traumatic “ memory ” and then follow with “ Maybe I ...
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... intense anxiety and the various defensive psychic evasions like avoidance, denial, and other various ways of distancing painful feelings. It is paradoxical that even, and for some especially, what promises to be change for the better is ...
... intense anxiety and the various defensive psychic evasions like avoidance, denial, and other various ways of distancing painful feelings. It is paradoxical that even, and for some especially, what promises to be change for the better is ...
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... intense good feelings are soon accompanied by correspondingly perfervid sensory and sensual bad feelings ( traumatic overstimulation , frustration , pain ) that can quickly change the glory to misery . But of course such feelings must ...
... intense good feelings are soon accompanied by correspondingly perfervid sensory and sensual bad feelings ( traumatic overstimulation , frustration , pain ) that can quickly change the glory to misery . But of course such feelings must ...
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Change Means Loss Spring and Summer Must Become Winter | 50 |
The Myth of Demeter and Persephone | 65 |
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