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Soft Power, How the West has Misunderstood it, And

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How China might have gotten it right. by RV. The other day, talking to my "young American friend" over lunch, on the topic of overuse of US "hard powers" in the world. He agreed that US "overused" its hard powers.  With his emphasis on the word "overused", he implied that US could scale back its hard powers international and yet achieve the same objectives, such as … [Read more...] about Soft Power, How the West has Misunderstood it, And

Anti-China Wing-Nut Farm

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Some one suggested that we should keep a running list of known obvious anti-China media distortionists, contortionists, wind bags, wing-nuts. So here it is.  Let's keep it running, but provide your nominations with some historical backgrounds on the nominations, type of articles, obvious and outrageous distortions.  And I or someone else will add worthy nominations to the … [Read more...] about Anti-China Wing-Nut Farm

China’s patent filing grew by a staggering 56.3% last year!

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Now for some good news for once. WIPO reported that China's patent filing grew by a staggering 56.3% last year, putting China at #4 in the world, behind #1 US, #2 Japan, and barely behind #3 Germany. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/china-ranks-4th-in-patent-application-india-lags/articleshow/7463404.cms … [Read more...] about China’s patent filing grew by a staggering 56.3% last year!