In your imagination. There is hard power and peaceful extension of hard power. Only those who don't have hard power have flaccid/soft/limp power. It does not belong to either China or America but only to small countries that must hug the leg of a larger power to survive.
No. You were already educated on this very recently:
Oh really? What about this: with a hard power equal to US, CN will still have overall weak soft power even inside CN.
No, not really. It's as simple as 1 + 1 = 2. Soft power is nothing but the internalized obedience of hard power. That you fail to understand this doesn't make it untrue.
Did she just realise that they actually lost the race to China, 2 decades ago when they started antagonising Russia? And then sealed the deal with the 2014 sanctions to it..
