Yung LinPublic diplomacy is a way of exerting soft power. It is how the foreign publics understand and perceive a country. With the understanding of Chinese and Taiwanese context of soft power, it raises the context of how the domestic public understand and see their own public diplomacy.
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Yung LinSoft power is mainly referred to the ability of changing others’ opinions through attraction rather than coercion. When Joseph Nye developed the concept of soft power, he was broadening the perspective of power, which was very much about military and forces in the post-cold war era. Nye widened a new agenda of power regarding culture, political values and foreign policy rather than coercion or payment.
Soft power is structured in a context that soft power is a conceptual term relative to hard power but is not separated power definition against hard power. However, in east Asia, soft power seems to be an alternative to hard power. Yung LinWhat ‘digital technology’ and ‘diplomacy’ have in common is that they both entail the nature of delivering information and message. Diplomacy is conceived as the service of processing information and communicating with foreign agents. Digital technology is the tool that makes diplomacy function. Now with the development of the internet, information and communication technology (ICT), the context of diplomacy is challenged in three domains: the environment of diplomacy, sovereignty, and interdependence.
Yung LinChina-US Trade War Brings Us Back to the Thinking: How to Look at Conflicts in East Asia?
The trade war between the US and China has brought attention to the issues of technology and cyber security market, where the conflict has been flaming up, as people were involved in the political power game. (Click and Read a related report) While the discussion on topics such as “Huawei”, “5G”, “China’s rising up” can be followed up in media, here we set the topic to find a perspective to better explain the conflict issues in East Asia. Yung Lin Should East Asia Develop A Similar Regional Integration as the EU?
With the Brexit happening, the regional integration has been a hot topic again. There comes an old historically-debated topic—The regional integration comparing East Asia to European Union. However, we argue that every region should have its own way of developing regional integration. Setting up a standard model and applying it to other region is easy to neglect the region’s historical and cultural features or more so to create conflicts. |
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