Tag: soft power
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Marco Rubio arrived at the Munich security conference with a disturbing message for European governments: empire is great https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/maga-marco-rubio-munich-security-conference?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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The Trump administration needs a more nuanced approach to Africa that doesn’t alienate the people and the markets that it is seeking to engage. To do so requires the president… more ›
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In a big year for Chinese cultural exports, a new video game is the latest to win a global audience. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/china-connection-newsletter-video-game-soft-power-tencent-netease-pif-where-winds-meet.html more ›
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KIGALI, Rwanda — In the summer of 2018, inside a national arena that felt more like a small-college gym, the NBA commissioner shot free throws with the president of Rwanda.… more ›
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‘The pen is a virgin,’ wrote Filippo de Strata in the late fifteenth century, but ‘the printing press is a whore.’ And that wasn’t the half of it. Born into a wealthy… more ›
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The TSMC-Apple partnership has been one of the defining relationships of the mobile computing era. Without Apple as a predictable, high volume and demanding customer, it is unlikely that TSMC… more ›
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Mark’s influence is staggering, far beyond that of anyone else in the private sector or in government. He controls three core communications platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — that billions… more ›
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The Chinese Communist Party leadership believe they are in the midst of an ‘intense, ideological struggle’ for survival and that to win they must defeat the West. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-plans-global-order more ›
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Russian operation linked to former IRA associates employed social media users in Ghana to target black communities in the US On March 12, 2020, CNN, Twitter, Facebook, Graphika, and two… more ›