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On the recordOctober 31, 2011
We don't have a lot of leverage outside of China, but we do have one point of leverage--soft power--that seems to be just not used and I don't understand why.
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Howard Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Calls for better use of soft power to influence China.

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