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15. Space Power Soft Power

Author : Ajey Lele

Published in: Asian Space Race: Rhetoric or Reality?

Publisher: Springer India

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Abstract

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

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Footnotes
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Leslie H. Gelb, author of “Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy” (HarperCollins 2009), a book that explains how to think about and use power in the twenty-first century.
 
2
Young Nam Cho and Jong Ho Jeong, “China’s Soft Power”, Asian Survey, Vol XLVIII, No. 3, May/Jun 2008, pp. 456–461. In November 2003, Zheng Bijian proposed China’s ‘peaceful rise theory’ at the Boao Asia Forum, stressing the need for China to advocate power transition while developing its own peaceful international influence. Beijing consensus: ‘Since China began undertaking economic reforms in 1978, its economy has grown at a rate of nearly ten percent a year, and its per-capita GDP is now twelve times greater than it was three decades ago. Many analysts attribute the country's economic success to its unconventional approach to economic policy - a combination of mixed ownership, basic property rights, and heavy government intervention. Time magazine's former foreign editor, Joshua Cooper Ramo, has even given it a name: the Beijing consensus.’ Please refer Yang Yao, “The End of the Beijing Consensus”, Feb 2, 2010, http://​www.​foreignaffairs.​com/​articles/​65947/​the-end-of-the-beijing-consensus, accessed on Jun 28, 2011.
 
3
This document is available on http://​www.​fmprc.​gov.​cn/​eng/​zxxx/​t230615.​htm, accessed on Feb 22, 2012.
 
4
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5
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“China’s Foreign Policy and “Soft Power” In South America, Asia, And Africa”, A study prepared for the committee on foreign relations united states senate by the congressional research service, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 2008, pp. 88–89.
 
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“China Launches Satellite for Nigeria”, May 29, 2007, http://​www.​thetrumpet.​com/​?​q=​3698.​1982.​0.​0, accessed on Sept 20 2011.
 
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Metadata
Title
Space Power Soft Power
Author
Ajey Lele
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer India
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0733-7_15

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