Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest stories about China’s soft power this year. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please considersubscribing. The Chinese-made dolls, a playful global ...

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This spring, Monocle commissioned what turned out to be the final piece of writing by Joseph S Nye, the political scientist who coined the term “soft power” and died in May at the age of 88. Nye’s ...

Since the start of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has been dismantling the traditional channels of American soft power. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is no longer ...

The Marshall Plan to rebuild post-World War II Europe has been acclaimed as the most successful foreign assistance program in U.S. history. The plan, officially known as the European Recovery Program ...

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The exterior design of China's lunar spacesuit for a crewed moon mission before 2030. Credit: CMSA The United States’ goal of completing a crewed moon mission before China has been coined as the new ...

English synth-pop duo Soft Cell, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist Dave Ball, helped usher in the second British invasion of musical artists in the ’80s, most notably with their ...

For decades, USAID was one of the greatest tools America had to promote democratic values in Russia. The agency extended humanitarian assistance while fostering political reform, and in doing so ...

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. By infusing rubber-like elastomers with materials called ...

On Sept. 16–18, U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump traveled to the United Kingdom for a state visit. The British royals provided glittering pomp and ceremony, with activities ...

Amid the pageantry and pomp of this week’s state visit, the war in Ukraine tested the ability of Britain’s legendary soft power to convince President Donald Trump to increase his pressure on Russian ...