200418 | global soft power

글로벌 리더십 지탱하는 미국의 soft power

- a vast web of alliances and legions of private actors with global soft power, from Google and Netflix to Harvard and the Gates Foundation.

 

... More fundamental than whether other countries are willing to see China supplant America is whether it intends to. Certainly, China is not about to attempt to reproduce America’s strengths: a vast web of alliances and legions of private actors with global soft power, from Google and Netflix to Harvard and the Gates Foundation. It shows no sign of wanting to take on the sort of leadership that means it will be sucked into crises all across the planet, as America has been since the second world war.

 

Leaders | Apr 18th 2020 
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