InShanghai·OpenMic | U.S. scholar says China playing constructive role in solving world issues

STORY: InShanghai·OpenMic | U.S. scholar says China playing constructive role in solving world issues DATELINE: April 27, 2023 LENGTH: 00:05:22 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): JOSEF GREGORY MAHONEY, Professor of politics at East China Normal University STORYLINE: STANDUP (English) : YOU ZHIXIN, Xinhua correspondent Our next speaker is Professor Mahoney, and he will talk on China's major-country diplomacy. Welcome. SOUNDBITE (English): JOSEF GREGORY MAHONEY, Professor of politics at East China Normal University "Thank you. When we talk about major-country diplomacy, when we talk about these new developments coming from China, what we also talk about is changes unseen in a century. So we have a new era where we have these changes unseen in a century. And this is requiring a new type of diplomacy, a major country diplomacy. It really begins to reach a new critical threshold, a new plateau in time with 2021. This is when we reach the first centenary goal of ach