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Hard and Soft Power

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Soft power works through diplomacy and attraction; hard power works through military force and its threat.

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The course of relations with China ran from distance to diplomacy to hard-eyed reassessment.

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The anchor pairs soft power with idealism and hard power with realism — labels, not verdicts.