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Forget the West – China think tanks must be ‘self-centred’ to project soft power: expert
Leading Chinese scholar Zheng Yongnian says policy adviser groups should be based on a practical ‘indigenous knowledge system’
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China’s think-tanks should pay more attention to the nation’s actual conditions and rely less on Western knowledge, according to a leading Chinese scholar, who said policy advisers could better reflect and project the country’s soft power by incorporating “Chinese characteristics”.
Professor Zheng Yongnian, a political economist with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, who is also a Beijing policy adviser, said that to better explain Chinese practices to the world and anticipate the country’s future, such organisations should be based on an “indigenous knowledge system”.
The root and power of a country’s rise was the “rise of ideas”, and think tanks were the core and soul of a country’s “soft power”, Zheng said in an interview in Tuesday’s issue of Chinese Social Sciences Today, a newspaper published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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