“Quest by China to revamp image now more important than ever” | Shi Jingtao

Check out the hi-lighted paras. Trenchant criticism of China and Xi Jinping. 

You don't get "soft power" from the centre down. Especially when the centre is the Communist Party of China.

Meantime China is at a summit of the BRICS. Has there been a bigger gang of villains and scoundrels? With Iran and Saudi Arabia in the wings to join. Really. This is Xi Jinping's concept of a "force for good"…. Heh.