"A gift for China": Daniel Drezner on the fall of US soft power
“Xi Jinping is now able to go to the rest of the world and say, ‘We’re the sane ones. We’re the ones you can trust.’"
Today, as a bonus for subscribers, we’re publishing a wide-ranging Q&A with renown political scientist and commentator Daniel Drezner about the global implications of the Trump administration’s rapid demolition of US soft power.
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Without further ado, here’s our conversation with Drezner.