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By Willy Lam, EastAsiaIntel.com
The year 2014 will go down in Chinese history for the way in which the Chinese Communist Party leadership throws it weight around the world in an effort to reshape the global order.
Yet China’s alarming weakness in soft power will detract from the Xi Jinping leadership’s unprecedented hard-power projection worldwide.
From January to November this year, President Xi and Premier Li Keqiang visited 26 countries in a total of 70 days. Yet it was during year-end multinational gatherings – particularly the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference in Beijing, the G20 meeting in Australia, and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) conclave in Myanmar – that China’s hard-power putsch was most stupendous.
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