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This chapter seeks to find out whether and how scholars and policymakers distinguish the concept of China’s soft power and how China’s soft power has been framed in the literature and academia of China apart from the concept of Western soft power.
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“A buffer can be created in the event that China develops such a position relationship with its neighbors that they would refuse to endanger their good relations with China by joining in a possible U.S. effort to contain or constrain China”.
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List of Countries who have signed MOU on BRI: https://eng.yidaiyilu.gov.cn/info/iList.jsp?cat_id=10076&cur_page=5.
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Numbers based on official BRI membership data. Country lists based on UN list of recognized countries.
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Islam, M.N. (2023). China’s Soft Power Strategy. In: Power of Bonding and Non-Western Soft Power Strategy in Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19867-0_3
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