How I wish a bright graduate student with a background in Chinese culture/Chinese language would consider writing a paper on China's public diplomacy as an anachronistic "imitation" of US Cold War public diplomacy. The censorship-obsessed mainland authorities are following the USA Cold-War script, as they see it: "ideologically safe" international TV propaganda programs not offensive (above all) to the homeland leadership; "educational," i.e, "indoctrinating" cultural centers overseas; well-controlled people-to-people exchanges.
I'm simply amazed by how even intelligent commentators in the U.S. see Chinese PD as a "threat" to America -- it's more like an aged dinosaur, moaning and groaning, about to die because the social-media comet (pardon the bad metaphor) has crashed on Mother Earth.
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I have a Chinese grad student in my Media and Foreign Policy seminar at GW, but I doubt she would take this kind of a thing on. She does want to go home, after all...
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