China's Public Diplomacy Toolkit

China is the headline of its wealth as the world's second largest economic power and apparently wishes to use its "wallet" as a means of public diplomacy to improve relations with diplomatic leaders and citizens I will. According to our estimate, Beijing 's financial diplomacy has paid a great price in East Asia and the Pacific alone. Between 2000 and 2016, over $ 48 billion has been promised.

This includes four types of official Chinese funds, perhaps most obvious to citizens and leaders, so they can effectively influence Chinese perception: infrastructure investment ($ 45.8 billion) , Humanitarian assistance ($ 273 million), budget support (613 million dollars) and debt relief ($ 90 million)

Official development assistance (Official Development Assistance or "aid") in accordance with the OECD standards, ie its flow, is highly advantageous from that point of view (ie it includes at least 25% of the subsidy elements).

Other official flows (OOF), they are less favorable, more commercial and representative.

On the surface, China's participation in the absolute amount of activity in the Pacific island countries is much lower. However, China's per capita diplomacy in these countries is highly likely to exceed that of Japan and Korea. Mr. Custer says: "Beijing is particularly interested in acquiring friends in the Pacific to reduce the number of countries that provide Taiwan's diplomatic approval.The public diplomatic activity is done in the form of an official visit between the leaders There is.

It has been nearly ten years since I first talked about the necessity of China's public diplomacy in general. In China, many cities have established participation of public diplomatic associations, local elite, entrepreneurs, academics, social activists, and even artists. They all have experiences of exchanging foreign exchange, want to strengthen exchange with foreign countries and talk about China. I think it is a late process to get rid of the misunderstanding about China. This country has just begun to participate in diplomacy in the past few years, so it has not had a big impact yet. But misunderstanding and prejudice are already weakening. Evidence is in mainstream Western media news and comments.

With the establishment of the first public diplomatic research center of Beijing University of Foreign Studies and a famous diplomatic diplomatic forum in 2010, China has greatly advanced the Deputy Minister Fu's efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Hide's words "effectively presenting his image to other countries" overcame the lack of experience in transactions with foreign media and the general public.