New grounds envisioned for soft power

Leading scholars named law, green finance, cultural heritage and language studies among a slew of promising areas for China and Greece to bolster their soft power and sustainable development of ties at a roundtable discussion in Piraeus, Greece on Friday afternoon.

Liu Huawen, deputy director of the Institute of International Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, noted that law serves as a promising area for the two countries to bolster exchanges, as both China and Greece are major maritime countries and have a large number of common or similar views on the sea.

The two countries successfully held China-Greece maritime cooperation year in 2015, which was the first time that China has held the annual ocean-themed event with a foreign country, Liu noted, adding that exchanges between scholars of international law studies should be reinforced.