Transforming Sino-Western Relations Through Global Media and Public Diplomacy

After more than two decades of unprecedented, rapid growth, China in 2008 overtook Germany as the world’s third-largest economy and second-largest trading nation (Palmer, 2010; Chuang, 2013). It surpassed Japan to become the largest creditor of the US (Niblett, 2009), and overtook the US as the country with the largest number of Internet users (Tong, 2011).