Asian Insider S1E3: Lovable China? How the world sees China's PR struggle: Power Play Ep 3
Power Play Ep 3: Lovable China? How the world sees China's PR struggle
10:08 mins
Synopsis: On the third Friday of every month, join Charissa Yong and Danson Cheong - ST’s US and China correspondents respectively based in Washington DC and Beijing - as they both look at various facets of the US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia.
They chat about the following:
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Chinese President Xi Jinping recently said it will be tough to build a "credible, lovable and respectable" image and how the US sees this (0:41)
- Who are China's wolf warriors on official Chinese social media posts? (1:46)
- A Pew Research Center poll shows that Singaporeans are quite the exception among Asians when it comes to positive views of China (3:55)
- How China missed plenty of good global PR opportunities to show it could be more generous and friendly than the US during Covid outbreak in 2020 (6:46)
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Why Chinese diplomats and media agencies are increasingly on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, trying to improve the country's PR image (8:24)
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Produced by: Charissa Yong (charyong@sph.com.sg), Danson Cheong (dansonc@sph.com.sg), Ernest Luis & Hadyu Rahim
Edited by: Aleemah Basirah & Hadyu Rahim
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