BOOK REVIEW: Beijing’s Global Media Offensive (China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World)

By Joshua Kurlantzick. Oxford University Press. Hard cover, 560pp with notes and index, US$29.95.

By: Benjamin Blythe

In Joshua Kurlantzick’s book Beijing’s Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World, he argues that while China has not succeeded in influencing media abroad to achieve its foreign policy goals in all aspects, both policymakers and ordinary people across the world should recognize “that Beijing will …