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China and the ROK Should Jointly Build a Concentric Circle of Oriental Civilization Han Fangming · 1 ·

2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea. In the past 30 years, friendly cooperation has always been the main tone of China-South Korea relations. However, there are discords in the overall situation of friendship and hidden worries in the good situation of win-win cooperation, as some people in South Korea are torn in their attitudes between China and the Unite States. In this regard, China and the ROK should uphold the principles of independence and mutual respect, promote the development of friendly bilateral relations by relying on public diplomacy between the two peoples, and jointly build a concentric circle of oriental civilization.

Coordinate the New Pattern of Security and Development under the Guidance of the Overall National Security Concept Yu Hongjun · 4 · China has always attached great importance to development and security, and been deeply concerned about the acceleration of socio-economic development and the maintenance of national security. In the early days after the founding of new China, the War to Resist the US Aggression and Aid North Korea and the first Five-year Plan for National Economy wrote a glorious chapter of coordinating the two major tasks of development and security, in which Mao Zedong came up with the concept of “peach first” and began to plan for China’s own security and the common security of the international community. During the period of reform and opening-up, under Deng Xiaoping’s scientific judgment that peace and development are the themes of the times, China successfully solved the problems of development and security, actively promoting not only its own development and security, but also the common development and security of the world. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to coordinating development and security, put forward new development concepts and new development arrangements, and promoted the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-style modernization in an all-round way.

Special Topic

Youth public diplomacy of China, America, Japan andSouth Korea in Southeast Asia

Progress of American Public Diplomacy towards Southeast Asian Youth in the Context of the Indo-Pacific Strategy Wang Yinzhao · 11 ·

In 2017, the US officially put forward the “free and open Indo-Pacific strategy”, replacing its “Asia-Pacific rebalancing strategy” as the dominant regional strategy. In this context, the status of youth public diplomacy towards Southeast Asia in the US public diplomacy system is rising. In order to enhance the linkage and adaptability of public diplomacy and regional strategies, the United States set out to build a Southeast Asian youth public diplomacy system in the Indo-Pacific era through the repositioning of goals and missions, and the iterative innovation of system and content. In the future, the US may continue to maintain its leading position in public diplomacy towards Southeast Asian youth, and deepen regional involvement by taking advantage of the political transformation going on in Southeast Asian countries, but it will still face the dilemma of redundant mechanism initiatives and lack of action funds. China should grasp the above trends and development, face up to the challenges and seize the opportunities, optimize and upgrade its public diplomacy towards youth, and better contribute to the building of China-ASEAN youth community with a shared future.

The US Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative: Characteristics, Progress, and Implications Yin Ke · 19 ·

In 2013, then-US President Barack Obama launched the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI), which appeared as a US public diplomacy program in Southeast Asia. When combined with the official US narrative and progress of the initiative, we may see that this initiative is the US government’s flagship diplomatic effort in Southeast Asia to strengthen US leadership and social networks in the region, break down geographic barriers for the next generation of US and Southeast Asian youth, and better connect emerging young Southeast Asian leaders with the United States. The ultimate goal is to advance America’s regional strategy in Southeast Asia. Youth is an important target of cooperation for the United States to get involved in Southeast Asian regional affairs. As the primary leverage of cooperation between US and Southeast Asian youth, YSEALI has developed rapidly, formed a large-scale cooperation network in Southeast Asia, and become an effective strategic tool of America’s public diplomacy

Japan’s Youth Public Diplomacy towards Southeast Asia: Current Situation and Characteristics Luo Xueyu · 28 ·

Since the beginning of the 21st century, Japan has attached particular importance to building a “heart-to-heart” relationship of trust with Southeast Asian countries, in which young people have become an important target for the implementation of relevant programs. Over the years, Japan has provided economic, cultural, educational and other aid to Southeast Asia in an effort to improve its image. The youth population had exceeded 65 percent in Southeast Asia by 2021, which has become the core force for the future development of Southeast Asian countries. This paper has analyzed the current situation and characteristics of Japan’s youth public diplomacy towards Southeast Asia, and discussed in detail the progress of JENESYS program in Southeast Asia as well as changes under the epidemic situation.

A Brief Analysis of the Effects of South Korea’s “Pop Culture” Diplomacy — Take South Korea’s Youth Public Diplomacy towards ASEAN as an Example Huang Yuanxu · 38 ·

In recent years, South Korea’s “pop culture” diplomacy has gone beyond the scope of pop culture and increasingly produced spillover effects to the political domain. It has become a powerful tool for South Korea to improve its external image. This paper has analyzed the effects of South Korea’s “pop culture” on its youth public diplomacy towards ASEAN and the causes. With the policy support of the South Korean government, South Korea’s “pop culture” diplomacy has carried forward its own cultural symbols in the ASEAN region and created a good national image by virtue of its open and efficient means of dissemination and in an towards Southeast Asia.

ingenious and soft form. South Korea’s “pop culture” diplomacy has promoted its youth public diplomacy towards ASEAN and the steady development of bilateral relations between South Korea and ASEAN. As the ASEAN region has huge development potentials and is also a key link in China’s geopolitical environment, studying the success of relevant country’s youth public diplomacy towards ASEAN has an important reference value for China.

Consolidating the Foundation: A New Agenda for China’s Youth Public Diplomacy towards ASEAN Wang Lina · 46 ·

Young people are builders of national development and participants in global governance. Public diplomacy towards youth groups is an important part of a country’s overall diplomacy and its place in the diplomatic strategy of major countries is constantly rising. At present, Southeast Asian countries are undergoing a demographic transition with a significant increase in the proportion of young people. China needs to focus on the youth and innovate theories, approaches and mechanisms to advance the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and ASEAN and the building of a community with a shared future for mankind in the post-COVID-19 era. This paper focuses on the new trends and characteristics of China’s youth public diplomacy towards ASEAN under the great changes of the century, summarizes the achievements and challenges of China’s youth public diplomacy towards ASEAN, and puts forward a new agenda for China’s youth public diplomacy, arguing that China should pay special attention to consolidating its social foundation among Southeast Asian youth groups and explore new ways to upgrade the resilience of its youth public diplomacy by promoting diverse interactions between its youth public diplomacy and China’s overall diplomacy towards Southeast Asia, adopting differentiated diplomatic strategies, and strengthening the influence on peripheral youth groups in Southeast Asia.

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Promote the Building of the Belt and Road through China-South AsiaCultural and Tourism Cooperation

Zhang Liming · 54 ·

Vision and Actions on Jointly Building Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road by China in 2015 and the Sagar Mala Yojana promoted by India since 2016 are in de facto competition in South Asia. In addition to using bilateral and multilateral dialogue mechanisms to avoid confrontational competition between the two initiatives, China and South Asia can start from the sharing of geographical and cultural resources existing for a thousand years to deepen cultural and tourism cooperation in order to achieve the development goals such as connectivity, people-to-people exchanges and win-win cooperation, and boost the construction of the Belt and Road in South Asia. So that, people on both sides of the Himalayas can share the development fruits such as peace, friendship, stability and prosperity.

The Philosophical Basis of China’s World Policy Zhu Ming · 62 ·

China differs from the West in the understanding and philosophical basis of hegemony, The Western definition of hegemony not only stays in the concept of power, but also focuses on the use of hegemony to obtain greater benefits. The root cause of the polarization of American politics and the fanaticism of confrontation in the US have resulted from the absolute exclusivity, violence and messianic thought of monotheistic thinking in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Whereas, in Chinese political philosophy, there is a distinction between Kings and Hegemons, and the most ideal way to rule is “to appease people living afar and overcome people with virtue”. Moreover, in the ways of thinking in the West, the formal logic mode of thinking developed in ancient Greece, the source of Western culture, has at its core the law of identity, the law of contradiction and the law of the excluded middle. These logics of thinking and the subsequent logic of behavior have a strong nature of independence, antagonism and thoroughness. On the contrary, the Chinese style of thinking, which is a non-formal logic mode of thinking and roots in moderation and natural thinking of Yin and Yang, was born with features of peace, mitigation and inclusiveness.

The Future Prospect of China’s Enterprise Public Diplomacy

Tian Lijia · 67 ·

As the representative of economic power in the public diplomacy system, enterprise is an important node of the world network. While facilitating the circulation of funds and commodities, it objectively promotes the circulation of information and culture, as well as disseminates and shapes the image of a country, thus becoming an important force in public diplomacy. The identity of enterprise as a non-governmental actor makes its role in public diplomacy “more credible and easier to attract the public”, hence playing an auxiliary and complementary role to government diplomacy. Under the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese enterprises actively resumed work and production at home with the support of the government, stepped up research and development efforts despite difficulties of various kinds, gradually came up to the needs of other countries on the basis of meeting domestic needs, and made greater efforts to promote international anti-epidemic cooperation, all of which has won China praises from peoples around the world, and built a good corporate as well as national image for China in the world. In the post-COVID-19 era, Chinese enterprises will face more opportunities for public diplomacy and their huge development potentials will also become an important tool for China to shape its national image and change international public opinion.

Case Studies

The Trend and Implementation of the US Foreign CommunicationStrategy Seen from its “Public Diplomacy Staffing Plan”

Liu Yang & Zhang Hanyue · 75 ·

The “US Public Diplomacy Staffing Plan” is a major event in the reform of US public diplomacy in recent years. According to the new situation, the responsibilities of local employees in US missions abroad are redefined to further expand local contacts, promote accurate communication, and serve US foreign policy. Through the analysis of this plan, we can not only have a glimpse into the trend and characteristics of American public diplomacy in the future period, but also observe the whole process from design to implementation of American important communication strategies.

Networked Governance of Regional International Relations by the United States — From the Perspective of Trump’s Indo-Pacific Strategy Implementation Wang Shan & Zhou Yongsheng · 85 ·

As a regional policy of the United States, the Indo-Pacific Strategy pursued by the Trump administration is far more important than others and has become the most mainstream strategy of the United States today. As the name implies, networked governance is to take the network as the governance unit, composed of longitudes, latitudes and key links. In such a network, the warp line represents the longitudinal target pillar, while the weft line represents the horizontal gripper at the operational level. In the Indo-Pacific Strategy Report “Preparedness, Partnership, and Promoting A Networked Region”, the United States proposed to build a military security network as the main longitude line and extend it to the geopolitical and economic domains to form three pillars, while the latitude line is divided into different levels descending from the Quad at the top to the ASEAN sub-regional governance at the bottom.

History

The Propaganda Work of the CPC against the Enemy during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid North Korea Zhao Xinli & Wang Lei · 94 ·

During the period of resisting US aggression and aiding North Korea, the CPC made full use of its advantages of being good at fighting public opinion, ideological and propaganda warfare, and carried out active propaganda work against the enemy. On the one hand, the CPC regarded the prisoner policy as an important tool of propaganda against the enemy, and carried out propaganda against the enemy by releasing prisoners, giving them preferential treatment and brainwashing them. On the other hand, the CPC actively recruited English talents to form a “language task force to North Korea” to carry out propaganda against the enemy. Meanwhile, political organs at all levels also strengthened their Enemy Work Departments, and carried out extensive propaganda work on the South Korean Army and the “United Nations Army” dominated by the US Army through the distribution of propaganda materials, propaganda at front lines with loudspeakers, propaganda by radio, festival propaganda, holding parties at front lines and other means, which became an important case of war propaganda.