Is China’s soft power rising, or is America’s just crumbling?
Soft power is notoriously hard to quantify, but it’s difficult to argue that global soft power has been shifting steadily toward East Asia in recent decades. A few years ago, I wro...
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Soft power is notoriously hard to quantify, but it’s difficult to argue that global soft power has been shifting steadily toward East Asia in recent decades. A few years ago, I wro...
After years of struggling to match the global popularity of the US, Japan and South Korea, Beijing’s image is improving
In today’s world, military strength is no longer the only way countries influence global affairs. Nations now rely heavily on culture…Continue reading on Medium »
Beijing hosted the presidents of the United States and Russia within days of each other recently. China’s rising diplomatic standing is no accident. It is grounded in a tradition o...
“Chinamaxxing” has become an online phenomenon.
Commentators increasingly warn that the United States is losing its soft power – and the data backs them up. The Brand Finance Global Soft Power Index 2026 ranked the US as the ste...
Have you “become Chinese”?
When Trump and Xi meet in Beijing, the most consequential AI question on the table will be one neither government’s existing toolkit was built to answer.
The chorus has become deafening.Op-ed pages and policy journals are saturated with self-appointed sages warning us that American soft power is finished, kaput, buried under the wei...
Beijing should adopt a more assertive approach to global cognitive warfare, Chinese scholars said, calling for more action amid a great power rivalry. The appeal was made by Wang W...
When Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Beijing this week, just days after US President Donald Trump departed, following his summit with President Xi Jinping, the choreogr...
The world’s two superpowers are waging an information war to influence the minds of Africa’s young and media-savvy demographic, with articles pitched by the United States and China...
Three years ago, only a fraction of the global public held more favorable opinions of China than of the U.S. Today, China and even Russia have a better global image.
BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhua) -- As global geopolitical uncertainties rise and the world accelerates toward multipolarity, neighboring countries increasingly view closer cooperation with...
BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) -- As global geopolitical uncertainties rise and the world accelerates toward multipolarity, neighboring countries increasingly view closer cooperation w...
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing in a much weaker position than he did more than four years ago, when he launched his invasion of Ukraine shortly after his last...
China’s diplomatic strategy has undergone a conspicuous shift, with Beijing conducting far fewer overseas state visits, opting instead to welcome a steady stream of foreign leaders...
Sponsored student visits are keeping international contact alive, but schools and analysts should ask questions about the intentions behind the visits as well as the impressions th...
This report was translated from Chinese into English using Alibaba’s Qwen3, then checked and tweaked for accuracy by a South China Morning Post journalist. It is for reference only...
Beijing’s relative quiet amid the Strait of Hormuz crisis underscores a domestic shift.
The United States has given up on one of its core international strengths.
China made the inner workings of the A.I. model open to all, and that’s starting to look like a soft-power win.
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