Citation:
Nye, Joseph S., Jr. 2015. “The Limits of Chinese Soft Power.” Today's Zaman. Copy at http://www.tinyurl.com/y59rzcw2
Date Published:
July 2015Abstract:
In 2007, then-President Hu Jintao told the Communist Party that the country needed to increase its soft power; President Xi Jinping repeated the same message last year. They know that, for a country like China, whose growing economic and military power risks scaring its neighbors into forming counter-balancing coalitions, a smart strategy must include efforts to appear less frightening. But their soft-power ambitions still face major obstacles.