Week 6 - Junying Ye

In particular, China stresses the soft power of its contacts with foreign countries and shapes an image of an international power without threat and responsibility in the region and around the world. The rapid expansion of China, especially in developing countries, has attracted extensive attention in the world. In the developing regions, many countries have high hopes for China's benefits in trade, investment and alternative development partnerships. Other countries feel uneasy, and they don't know what China's seemingly impossible demand for energy and resource export markets means for emerging economies, weak governments and people deprived of power. Ultimately, the challenge for developing countries is whether their governments and people can use their external contacts with China and other major countries to ultimately benefit their country. In the west, the combination of China's economic contact and soft power has caused some people's panic. They think the influence of western countries in developing regions will weaken, on governance, transparency and accountability of the investment will be destroyed, especially in the government's lack of legitimacy or National Foresight but natural resource rich countries. In particular, many Americans worry about losing strategic influence on china.

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