“There is a also an understanding or a claim that it is China’s rightful place to have more influence and it is a state strategy where the governing elite seize its survival lies so we can not survive in this system unless we gain more influence.”
The Chinese communist party seeks to bolster an image of international attractiveness while maintaining nationalistic fervour domestically with the ultimate goal of positioning China as a global competitor to western liberal democracy. In this episode Patrik Oksanen, resident senior fellow at Stockholm Free World, and Anna Rennéus Guthrie, Director at Stockholm Free World Forum, speak to Dr. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova about her latest brief on the topic.
Listen to the episode here.