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:

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)

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 ([email protected]), Danson Cheong ([email protected]), Ernest Luis & Hadyu Rahim

Edited by: Aleemah Basirah & Hadyu Rahim

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