International Law

New C/D Post: the China Model Debate and Political Proselytizing

By Stan

My latest China/Divide post, which went up yesterday, was slightly more academic than usual. Reads a bit more like I was still studying international relations than practicing law; I guess that IR degree didn’t go to waste.

Anyway, enjoy. Tomorrow’s China Hearsay will feature stuff on the media’s treatment of US-China bilateral trade issues, and how a couple of US Senators are using the China IPR infringement issue to play politics (as usual).

As the economic success story that is China continues to roll on, so too has the China Model debate, a seemingly endless discussion about the relative merits of Western-style democracy and so-called authoritarian capitalism. As China?s presence in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America strengthens, some have criticized U.S. efforts to spread democracy around the globe through the use of both hard and soft power. But is the West really in a global fight that pits democracy versus the ?China Model? in a soft power struggle of political proselytizing? While the U.S. seems to be actively engaged in this conflict, evidence of China?s participation is difficult to identify.

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Full post as published by China Hearsay on April 25, 2010 (boomark / email).