Soft and Hard Power Bill Nye’s idea that nations exert two kinds of power - ‘hard’ military and economic power and ‘soft’ diplomatic and cultural power is used again and again to explain American dominance, that the US can bomb you and seduce you all at once. There’s something to that claim and also to its converse, that China (and earlier, the Soviet Union) have a measure of hard power but fail to exert soft power. How many migrate to Shanghai to pursue life and liberty?
T2B39: Cliden 12
T2B39: Cliden 12
T2B39: Cliden 12
Soft and Hard Power Bill Nye’s idea that nations exert two kinds of power - ‘hard’ military and economic power and ‘soft’ diplomatic and cultural power is used again and again to explain American dominance, that the US can bomb you and seduce you all at once. There’s something to that claim and also to its converse, that China (and earlier, the Soviet Union) have a measure of hard power but fail to exert soft power. How many migrate to Shanghai to pursue life and liberty?