Mon August, 2020, Age: 4 years
This analysis by East-West Center Senior Fellow Denny Roy tracks the collapse of China’s attempt to garner “soft power,” or the ability to get what you want through attraction first defined by Joseph Nye. Roy explains that Beijing’s state-led model of attempting to force soft power has not been working, and its has seemingly abandoned its efforts to pursue this kind of influence in favor of economic coercion and “Wolf Warrior” diplomacy.