Net Diplomacy and Sino-US Interaction on the Net

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Promoted by globalization and informationization, Net Diplomacy, with the Internet as its main arena, has come into being. Due to its dual advantages of light-speed communication and on-line virtual interaction, it gradually becomes a new sharp instrument of diplomacy to many countries and is considered as an important strategic tool to “manage foreign policies in the 21st Century”. In fact, the advancement of information technology brings powerful challenges to the existing diplomatic culture and modality, in particular, the formation and implementation of foreign policies are increasingly affected by the storm of opinions in cyber space. Therefore, Net Diplomacy makes a set of impacts on international politics.
As the shining pioneer and the most mature developer of the Internet, the US has an earlier awareness of the electronic future of diplomacy. Being the world’s biggest Online Empire, it has the most influential and capable cyber media at huge scales, websites of well-known international organizations, electronic platforms of top research institutions and global virtual communities. The US is conducting its programs of public diplomacy over the Internet and broadcast entities. And its Department of State has even set up an official Diplomatic Blog open to the public over the world. The US virtual friends-making community Facebook.com and virtual daily life community Secondlife.com may make profound contributions to Net Diplomacy. The virtual space such as Facebook.com has globally expanded its membership among alien users and creates a US-led Internet Earth Village of high intensity and great energy, which offers a powerful foundation for the US to make intangible influences over the virtual villagers from different counties.

In face of the above challenges, China has to take effective measures to increase its interaction with the USA on the net. China is supposed to take an attitude of welcome towards the current process of the Net Diplomacy expansion and pay high attention to the significance of establishing a benign interaction with the US ahead of time in order to maintain each other’s reasonable interests and the cyber political stability, preventing the creation of certain negative effects concerned.

(SciSo.org staff reporter Bai Xuhui)

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