Faced with declining foreign investment at home, China has sought to soften its image in the United States and Europe and make nice with some of its neighbors.
One Communist Party official has played an unusually prominent role in the shift in tone.
In New York, he told an audience of scholars and businesspeople that China did not seek to rewrite the United States-led global order.
In Beijing, he told the ambassador of India, a regional rival, that China hoped relations would “return to a healthy and stable” track.
The official, Liu Jianchao, heads the Communist Party’s diplomatic arm, a body that promotes the party’s ideology and influence abroad.
Persons:
Liu Jianchao, China’s
Organizations:
Communist Party, Communist
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China, United States, Europe, New York, States, Paris, Beijing, India