{"id":24053,"date":"2011-01-18T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/joseph_nye_on_the_hu_jintao_visit_chinas_hubris_colours_us_relations\/"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T17:00:16","slug":"joseph_nye_on_the_hu_jintao_visit_chinas_hubris_colours_us_relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24053","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Joseph Nye on the Hu Jintao visit: China&#39;s hubris colours US relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in 2007, President Hu Jintao had told the 17th Congress of the Communist Party that China needed to invest more in its soft, or attractive, power.<\/p>\n<p>From the point of view of a country that was making enormous strides in economic and military power, this was a smart strategy.<\/p>\n<p>By accompanying the rise of its hard economic and military power with efforts to make itself more attractive, China aimed to reduce the fear and tendencies to balance Chinese power that might otherwise grow among its neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>But China&#8217;s performance has been just the opposite, and China has had a bad year and a half in foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-12209538\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in 2007, President Hu Jintao had told the 17th Congress of the Communist Party that China needed to invest more in its soft, or attractive, power. From the point of view of a country that was making enormous strides in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24053\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,201,502,143,149,144,151,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-china","category-defense-national-security-military","category-economy","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}