Soft Power: How China Continues to Game the System

China has found it doesn't need a particular soft power niche to play the soft power game...

So, it's been a while since we last posted. Journeying to the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco, the world's largest annual cyber security event, and doing follow up from there has occupied most of our time. But we'll be getting back into the swing of things; this post – while short – will serve as an antecedent to a deep dive on China that we'll post later this week, and we're also dropping a piece on the India-Pakistan fallout.

Last week, President Trump dropped – you guessed it – more tariffs, this time on films made in foreign countries¹. Ostensibly the reasoning from the President is to protect Hollywood against competitors, but this is coming from a man clearly unaware that equating a reshoring approach of manufacturing is not the same as doing it for entertainment production (and perhaps more importantly, financing or services in general). But this isn’t only about attempting to reshore entertainment industries.

We should note that in the last few days both China and the US h…