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Mixed Signalling in Chinese Foreign Policy
    
	China sometimes seems to send contradictory and confusing signals in foreign policy. While China is often eager to promote its soft power, why do some Chinese officials spread messages that hurt rather than promote China’s international image? Why would the Chinese diplomatic narrative become more assertive in recent years? This talk will analyse China’s diplomatic signals in multiple domains. The empirical examples include China’s regional diplomacy as well as its ‘Twitter diplomacy’. This talk will identify patterns of China’s diplomatic signalling and will also provide preliminary explanations. China has incentives to project different images. Chinese international efforts to project a strong image are predominantly aimed at the domestic audience. Domestic politics and competing expectations will continue constraining the effectiveness of China’s diplomatic signalling.
Date:
21 May 2021, 15:00
Venue:
  Online
  
Speaker:
  
    Professor Xiaoyu Pu (University of Nevada, Reno)
  
    
Organising department:
    Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
    
Organiser:
    
        Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
    
    
Organiser contact email address:
    information@chinese.ox.ac.uk
    
Host:
    
        Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
    
    
Part of:
    International Relations of China
Booking required?:
Required
    
Booking url:
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Audience:
Public
    
Editor: 
      Clare Orchard