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China is stepping into a soft power vacuum created by the new US administration. Since Donald Trump was elected president, the country has eschewed soft power.
Russian officials will be hoping that excitement about one of the world’s biggest sporting events generates some goodwill for the country.
New film has broken China’s box office record while projecting soft power for Beijing.
When financial times are tight, only those with soft power ambitions can see the economic sense in World Cups or Olympic Games.
It’s all to do with PSG’s Qatari owners.
Newly translated Chinese Ministry of Education records shine light on China’s shifting place in the global higher education landscape.
The communist state exercises ‘soft power’ in Australia in myriad ways, and it is vital that it is resisted.
If Australia is going to successfully navigate its way through the “Asian Century,” we need independent centres of research excellence on China.
There’s nowhere quite like Japan – or at least, that’s how the Japanese government tells it.
For decades, the US has used international education to support democracy and positive relations with countries. For most of the 1970s, Iran sent more students to America than any other country.
China’s new freight train line to London is part of an increasing web of trade routes designed to boost the country’s influence abroad.
It’s all very well to be intimidating, but China needs to win people over too.
Although Donald Trump has called climate change a hoax invented by China, Chinese leaders believe cutting carbon emissions will generate economic and political payoffs at home and abroad.
Football is becoming an increasingly important weapon in Britain’s soft power arsenal.
The BBC will add 11 new languages in its biggest expansion in 70 years.
The election of Donald Trump has awoken a streak of authoritarianism in America that is incompatible with it leading with liberal democratic ideals.
Some countries clearly prefer one candidate over the other. But the biggest loser may be the American political process, long held up as a model for the rest of the world to emulate.
Britain uses its aid for soft power. How will that change after it leaves the EU?
How Hitler’s Germany, fascist Italy and other authoritarian states tried to win friends and influence people.
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Associate Professor of Sport Business, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Doctoral Researcher in Politics, University of Surrey
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Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Studies and Governance, University of the Free State
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Director, The Future of Diplomacy at the Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg
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Lecturer in Journalism, University of Technology Sydney
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Head of Global Security, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich; University of Sydney
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Professor emeritus, School of Education and School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh
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Dean and Professor of Higher and International Education, Executive Director of SUNY's Strategic, Academic, and Innovative Leadership (SAIL) Institute, and Co-Director of the Cross-Border Education Research Team, University at Albany, State University of New York
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