P.S. That is real "soft power": promote your country to the world. The issue of last week's TIME had a special report "Hollywood East: A movie-crazy China is remaking the film industry in its image.", in which it demonstrated how China's film industry has been booming in box office and how the business has been boosting by means of acquiring foreign studios, bankrolling on tycoon production companies, and cooperating with top-notch directors in the world. The effect? At least no one dares to mock China or Chinese people on screens any more now. Again, "soft power" is the concomitant increase which has been in the wake of the increase of China's national "hard power".
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