China Boosts Soft Power in Pakistan Via Film and Social Media

China Boosts Soft Power in Pakistan Via Film and Social Media
Reporters work at the office of Hushang, a Mandarin language weekly newspaper, in Islamabad, Pakistan on June 9, 2017. Caren Firouz/Reuters
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ISLAMABAD–In a small office at the Pakistani Television Corporation (PTV) headquarters in Islamabad, producers are preparing to air a video interview of a Pakistani man and his Chinese bride.

The woman in the footage is dressed in traditional Pakistani clothes, sitting next to her husband who addresses her in fluent Mandarin, amplifying a message of trans-national love prevailing over differences in language, religion and culture.