China Airborne (33 page)
Authors: James Fallows
1.
Bandurski, “Zhang vs. Yang.”
2.
The term “soft power” was coined by Joseph Nye, of Harvard, and he has argued that China’s charm-offensive efforts were bound to defeat themselves, because they brought all the more attention to the lack of rules in its domestic practices. In 2010, he wrote, “The Shanghai Expo was a great success but was followed by the jailing of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo. And for all the efforts to turn Xinhua and China Central Television into
competitors of CNN and the BBC, there is little international audience for brittle propaganda”—and little possibility, for now, of other than propaganda coming across those channels. Joseph Nye, “China’s Repression Undoes Its Charm Offensive,”
Washington Post
, March 25, 2011.
3.
Johan Lagerkvist, “The Coming Collapse of China’s Soft Power,”
Chinaroader
, March 23, 2011.
http://johanlagerkvist.org/2011/03/23/the-coming-collapse-of-chinas-soft-power/
.
James Fallows is a national correspondent at
The Atlantic
, for which he has reported from around the world for more than thirty years. He also holds the Chair in U.S. Media at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, in Australia. He has been a frequent contributor to NPR since the 1980s, most recently as a regular analyst for
Weekend All Things Considered
, and has written for
The New York Review of Books
,
The New Yorker
, and other publications. He has a long-standing interest in technology, aviation, and China, which he first visited in the 1980s and where he and his wife lived from 2006 through 2009.
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