Soft power
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In the end of A Christmas Holiday, our Somerset Maugham‘s character went back to his middle-class comfort zone but quite aware of his “plastic” existence. This was right after he had spent a week in Paris, meeting Lydia, a Russian gypsy whose suffering life was nothing Charlie had ever imagined. I couldn’t help think of…
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Mind you, this is not a new Panda Express dish. Just China exercises its soft power, by sending S&R responders to Haiti (Western Hemisphere, many time zones away from the Great Kingdom). Why China? China has explored Space, Chips, and automobiles (not to mention its recent Bullet train, which should keep the Japanese on their…
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