Li Kexin, deputy chief of mission at China’s US embassy in Washington, says impressions of China’s might are 20 per cent the result of the country’s “nationalist bubble we’ve created by ourselves”. Photo: Handout Li Kexin, deputy chief of mission at China’s US embassy in Washington, says impressions of China’s might are 20 per cent the result of the country’s “nationalist bubble we’ve created by ourselves”. Photo: Handout
Li Kexin, deputy chief of mission at China’s US embassy in Washington, says impressions of China’s might are 20 per cent the result of the country’s “nationalist bubble we’ve created by ourselves”. Photo: Handout
China /  Diplomacy

China’s ‘nationalist bubble’ partly to blame for suspicions over global role, envoy to US concedes

  • Li Kexin of China’s US embassy says his country’s pride in advances and promotions by media may have played roles in raising foreign concerns

Topic |   US-China relations
Owen Churchill
Owen Churchill

Updated: 11:28pm, 7 Dec, 2018

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Li Kexin, deputy chief of mission at China’s US embassy in Washington, says impressions of China’s might are 20 per cent the result of the country’s “nationalist bubble we’ve created by ourselves”. Photo: Handout Li Kexin, deputy chief of mission at China’s US embassy in Washington, says impressions of China’s might are 20 per cent the result of the country’s “nationalist bubble we’ve created by ourselves”. Photo: Handout
Li Kexin, deputy chief of mission at China’s US embassy in Washington, says impressions of China’s might are 20 per cent the result of the country’s “nationalist bubble we’ve created by ourselves”. Photo: Handout
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