China's Repression Undoes Its Charm Offensive

Joseph Nye, Wash Post
I was asked to lecture at Beijing University on soft power, the ability to use attraction and persuasion to get what you want without force or payment. This was before the series of revolutions roiling the Middle East, in whose aftermath China is clamping down on the Internet and jailing human rights lawyers, once again torpedoing its soft-power campaign. The auditorium that day was packed, and I had been told that more than a thousand articles have been published in China on this topic.

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/27/china039s_repression_undoes_its_charm_offensive_252767.html

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