While America is bogged down in Iraq, China’s been quietly winning friends and influencing people.
This week at TPMCafe’s Book Club, we’re discussing Josh Kurlantzick’s Charm Offensive: How China’s Soft Power Is Transforming the World. Kurlantzick argues that “China savvily has amassed significant âsoft powerâ around the world through aid, formal diplomacy, public diplomacy, investment, and other tools” and is going to start to use it. We ignore this geopolitical shift, according to Kurlantzick, at our own peril.
Debating China’s quiet rise to power will be Naazneen Barma, Mauro De Lorenzo, Ely Ratner, Devin Stewart, John Feffer, Reed Hundt, and Daniel Drezner.
