China’s Outbound Tourism as a Soft Power Tool in the Middle East
China’s Outbound Tourism as a Soft Power Tool in the Middle East by Mordechai Chaziza
Over the past two decades, China has gradually incorporated the use of soft power into its foreign policy. China’s efforts to ramp up its soft power in the Middle East is part of a wider offensive to bolster trade and national security. This article discusses China’s use of tourism as an instrument of soft power in the region.
-- From the Middle East-Asia Project (MAP) series All About China --
Programme Manager for SSR, International Security Sector Advisory Team at DCAF
5 年Really interesting to see tourism being researched as part of international relations. For some case studies of tourism, politics and development, check out Waleed Hazbun's Beaches, Ruins, Resorts: The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World