03
April 2020
Past Event
Video Livestream | China's Charm Diplomacy: Beijing's Attempts to Reinvent Reality

Video Livestream | China's Charm Diplomacy: Beijing's Attempts to Reinvent Reality

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
April 03, 2020
03
April 2020
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C., District of Columbia 20004

Speakers:
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Patrick M. Cronin

Asia-Pacific Security Chair

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Aparna Pande

Research Fellow, India and South Asia

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Peter Rough

Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia

**Please be advised: This event will be livestreamed only starting at 11:00 a.m. EDT, Friday, April 3.**

**__If you have questions for our panelists, please email events@hudson.org or simply ask questions during the live event on Twitter by tagging @HudsonInstitute.__**

As coronavirus cases soar in Europe and America, China has begun sending medical supplies to hard hit regions of the globe in order to portray itself as humanitarian and international leader. This calculated diplomacy comes only after Beijing covered up the COVID-19 outbreak that has now claimed tens of thousands of lives globally.

Meanwhile, the Chinese Communist Party is using the World Health Organization to cloak itself in legitimacy and deploying propaganda about the origin of the virus, all in an attempt to distract from its mismanagement of the crisis. General Secretary Xi’s coronavirus diplomacy is an extension of the long-term strategy intended to give it a foothold in afflicted regions to exercise political power and further increase their dependence on China.

Join Hudson Institute as experts discuss the geopolitical consequences of China using the COVID-19 crisis to establish a “global health silk road” spanning Europe, South Asia and East Asia.

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