Is soft power - friendship - the open door to China today?

2010 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, who died in Beijing in 1610. This issue of Open Space explores Ricci's approach of immersing himself in Chinese language and culture in order to build friendship and suggests this soft power way for nations to relate to each other today.

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