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Assessing Taiwan’s Soft Power: Cultural Policy and Implications Abroad—a GTI Event
In a conversation held by the Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) at 10:00 a.m. ET on Aug. 22, Jerry Liu, professor, executive director of the Taiwan Association of Cultural Policy Studies, ...
August 23, 2023
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The Destruction of American Soft Power
Commentary For three decades diplomats and foreign policy wonks have used the term “soft power” to describe employing ...
August 9, 2023
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Austin Bay
Asra Nomani on the ‘Unholy Alliance’ Between the Woke Left and the Islamist Right That Is Destabilizing America
“He came to visit a home that I was renting in Karachi, and he went off for an ...
May 9, 2023
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Jan Jekielek
Number of US Students Studying in China Drops to 20-year Low; Chinese Students Remain Largest Group of International Students in US
China's strict “zero-COVID” policies and control measures in recent years have brought the number of American college students ...
March 24, 2023
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Alex Wu
Capitol Report (June 21): Twitter Board Gives Nod to Musk Twitter Takeover; CCP Rebrands Confucius Institutes
Voters are headed to the polls in key primary races. We'll tell you which races have the potential ...
June 21, 2022
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Steve Lance
Defeating Communist China Requires Soft Power—Does the US Have Any Left?
Commentary If the United States is to remain a dominant—no, the dominant—force in geopolitics, what must the country’s leaders ...
March 9, 2022
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John Mac Ghlionn
Chinese Military Deliveries of the COVID-19 Vaccine: Exercising Soft Power
News Analysis The People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been particularly active in projecting China's soft power during the ...
November 12, 2021
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Richard A. Bitzinger
Australia Rejoins Ranks of World’s Top 10 Soft Power Nations
Australia has risen on the global rankings of soft power, bumping off Russia to claim tenth place, while ...
February 25, 2021
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Nina Nguyen
Iconic Australian TV Shows Beamed into Pacific Islands Countering China’s Increasing Propaganda Outreach
Iconic Australian TV programs, including Neighbours, MasterChef, The Voice, and 60 Minutes will soon be accessible in Pacific countries ...
May 25, 2020
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Sophia Jiang
How China Organizes Politically Motivated Campaigns to Achieve Its Domestic, Foreign Strategic Goals
Commentary China is a country with a political system unlike any other. Since taking power in 1949, the ...
May 25, 2020
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Jingduan Yang
Confucius Institutes: A Chinese Trojan Horse
Commentary On American college and university campuses, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has, for nearly two decades, funded over 100 Confucius ...
May 17, 2020
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Octavio Nuiry
China’s Virus Propaganda Backfires; CCP Global Ambitions Take Hit
The Chinese regime has launched a global campaign of disinformation, propaganda, diplomacy, and threats to dissuade both the ...
April 27, 2020
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Joshua Philipp
Soft Power: Australia Uses Hard Game to Tackle China in Pacific
SYDNEY—Australia will direct more foreign aid to develop the sport of rugby league in the Pacific, officials say, ...
January 31, 2019
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Reuters
The Confucius Institute
Commentary The Confucius Institute (CI) first came to my attention a few years ago when I was having ...
January 29, 2019
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Ronald J. Rychlak
Fifty Years On, China Ramps Up ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy’ in South Pacific
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea—Inside a Chinese-funded facility perched on a steep hill overlooking Port Moresby's sparkling harbor, ...
December 4, 2018
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Reuters
Chinese Show to Debut in Australia Is Regime’s New Soft Power Tool, Critics Say
Some Australian-Chinese are calling out what they say is a new attempt by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ...
October 22, 2018
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Mimi Nguyen Ly
India’s ‘Soft Power’ Is Most Ubiquitously Manifested in the Spread of Yoga
Though its soft power is visible through many manifestations—be it the ancient medical science of Ayurveda for curing ...
June 29, 2016
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Manik Mehta
Korean Court Gives In to Chinese Regime’s Blackmail
At 4:30 p.m. on May 4, South Korea's Seoul Southern District Court surprisingly reversed its own decision: Shen ...
May 5, 2016
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Matthew Robertson
Stockholm University to Close Confucius Institute
The 10-year-old Confucius Institute at Sweden’s Stockholm University is slated to be closed down this June, according to ...
January 8, 2015
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Leo Timm
BRICS Host Sports Events to Boost Prestige, Just Don’t Call It ‘Soft Power’
As the BRICS Summit meets hot on the heels of the FIFA World Cup, also in Brazil, a ...
July 15, 2014
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Michiel Foulon
Soft Power and the Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy
Since the end of the Cold War, both Democratic and Republican administrations have in varying measure premised policy ...
June 21, 2014
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Peter Morici
Beijing’s Battle for ‘Soft Power’ Playing Out in the West End
The Chinese Communist Party's pursuit of "soft power" lies behind recent attempts to stop a performance of classical ...
March 20, 2012
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Simon Veazey
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