Editing Soft power (section)

=== China ===
{{Main|Soft power of China}}
China's traditional culture has been a source of attraction, building on which it has created several hundred [[Confucius Institute]]s around the world to teach its language and culture. The enrollment of foreign students in China has increased from 36,000 a decade before to at least 240,000 in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jr |first=Joseph S. Nye |date=2012-01-17 |title=Opinion {{!}} Why China Is Weak on Soft Power |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/opinion/why-china-is-weak-on-soft-power.html |access-date=2024-07-10 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> China is the most popular country in Asia for international students,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-10-01 |title=International Student Mobility: Patterns and Trends |url=https://wenr.wes.org/2007/10/wenr-october-2007-feature |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=WENR |language=en-US |archive-date=2020-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813050208/https://wenr.wes.org/2007/10/wenr-october-2007-feature |url-status=live}}</ref> the leading destination globally for Anglophone African students,<ref>{{cite web |title=China tops US and UK as destination for anglophone African students |url=https://theconversation.com/china-tops-us-and-uk-as-destination-for-anglophone-african-students-78967 |access-date=18 February 2018 |first1=Victoria |last1=Breeze |first2=Nathan |last2=Moore |work=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]] |date=27 June 2017 |archive-date=9 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109004110/https://theconversation.com/china-tops-us-and-uk-as-destination-for-anglophone-african-students-78967 |url-status=live}}</ref> and the second most popular [[Education in China|education powerhouse]] in the world.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-27 |title=China's 2020 target: reshaping global mobility flows |url=https://www.eaie.org/blog/china-2020-target-reshaping-global-mobility-flows.html |access-date=2020-05-05 |website=EAIE |language=en |archive-date=2021-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010111212/https://www.eaie.org/blog/china-2020-target-reshaping-global-mobility-flows.html |url-status=live}}</ref> China's [[Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank]] has attracted many Western countries to join.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=With New Bank, China Shows U.S. It's Got Soft Power |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/03/23/with-new-bank-china-shows-u-s-its-got-soft-power/print/ |magazine=[[Forbes]] |access-date=31 July 2015 |date=23 March 2015}}</ref> China has the [[List of diplomatic missions of China|largest diplomatic network]] in the world, overtaking the US in 2019.<ref name="auto"/><ref name=":0" /> The provision of Chinese medical aid during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] has been dubbed "facemask diplomacy".<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Waterson |first1=Jim |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/china-steps-up-western-media-campaign-over-coronavirus-crisis |title=China steps up western media campaign over coronavirus crisis |date=2020-04-03 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=2020-04-06 |last2=Kuo |first2=Lily |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=2020-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200405142432/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/china-steps-up-western-media-campaign-over-coronavirus-crisis |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Yuan |first=Shaoyu |date=2023-12-31 |title=Government Legitimacy and International Image: Why Variations Occurred in China's Responses to COVID-19 |url=https://doi.org/10.17477/JCEA.2023.22.2.018 |journal=Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=18–38 |doi=10.17477/JCEA.2023.22.2.018}}</ref>[[File:Arrive du CONCORDE à Abidjan en 1978.jpg|thumb|The supersonic jet [[Concorde]] arrives in [[Ivory Coast]], a former French colony, in 1978. Concorde was often used as a symbol of French prestige and a vessel of soft power.<ref>{{Cite journal |url= |title=Aviation diplomacy: a conceptual framework for analyzing the relationship between aviation and international relations |first=Michał Marcin |last=Kobierecki |date=June 24, 2020 |journal=Place Branding and Public Diplomacy |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=293–303 |via=Springer Link |doi=10.1057/s41254-020-00172-5 |pmc=7313438}}</ref>]]