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manqiangrexue

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this long back and forth is cluttering
Entirely because you continue to "argue" in a nonsensical and futile manner against givens and knowns.
but you seem convince on Hard power and not appreciating Soft Power.
Nothing is convincing me otherwise.
Mexico population has increased over 5 times since post world war Period while US population has increased a little over twice including increasing share of Hispanic.
That has nothing to do with hard power. Actually, the world's most powerful and advanced nations tend to have low birth rate while poor developing nations, agrarian societies tend to have the highest birth rates.
if this trend continue Mexico grab more business than Mexico will be the dominant economic power in USMCA
I hope it does and I hope Mexico takes back every territory from the US but it does nothing for this topic.
and this will translate into Soft Power of Hispanics inside US.
If Mexico becomes the dominant economic power, it will have the greatest amount of hard power. Soft power will, of course follow with the hard power but it's just a side effect... and this is just your imagination.
it is the Soft Power of demographics
No. Demographics aren't soft power. You are not educated enough to debate this. You still cannot define soft power in a coherent way.
driving the hard power of economics which is driving soft power.
The rest of the sentence is correct.
Mexico already bought Texas Shell Refinery. so it is not like only US is investing in Mexico. Mexico is part of OPEC+ but not OPEC but recently OPEC SG visited Mexico so I am sure Arabs are paying attention to US demographics as Arabs have investments and buy aviation products made in America south. The rest of stuff is too complicated.
Investments, business, money are all hard power.
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What the hell is this supposed to be?
Does the book fair have anything to do with the discussion? Asking because I have not been following closely.
You know damn well nothing he writes has anything to do with the discussion.

Me: Mexico has a lower PPP per capita than the US proving that its quality of life and resources per person are lower than the US. Furthermore, interviews show that Mexicans themselves cite economic reasons as the top driving factor to enter the US.

PMC: It's soft power! Mexico has expensive hotel! Mexico has dentists and airlines, that means it's a wealthy, powerful country! Americans live there. It has FDI investment increase. How you know Mexicans going to US aren't all other people in disguise fleeing from the law? Mexico population growth is higher. That's soft power! Mexico soft power controlling US, got concessions from America and made up the caravans. How you know Americans don't sneak into Mexico to do menial labor? Where's the data? If there's no data, that means they do! 5% immigration rate is drop in the bucket! Anything under 50% round down to 0!
 
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manqiangrexue

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Try understand other cultures. these are steps to reconnect.
Try to understand the words you use before debating them. Define "soft power." These are the steps to depart the realm of retardation.
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Why does Mexico honor a country that is among the richest in the world and one that can flood Mexico with investment? Why not honor somebody from a poor country with no ability to do anything for Mexico but begs for aid instead? Oh that's right: hard economic power determines it.
 

pmc

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Try to understand the words you use before debating them. Define "soft power." These are the steps to depart the realm of retardation.

Why does Mexico honor a country that is among the richest in the world and one that can flood Mexico with investment? Why not honor somebody from a poor country with no ability to do anything for Mexico but begs for aid instead? Oh that's right: hard economic power determines it.
Mexico does not need investment. It has US doing all the work for it. They honor who they think better connected culturally.
 

Canton_pop

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This is what I call retaliation :D China is harming US national security by cutting off monkeys.

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Why? There's endless supplies of monkeys in Capitol Hill
 

emblem21

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The fate of countries, peoples that choose to blindly aligned themselves with the most loyal, honest, and ethical country of all time, America. I hope it does not happen to Ukraine or with Taiwan.

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if the USA keeps on backstabbing other like this, even though the ones they hire are helpful and loyal, then what the hell are they waiting for, simply declare the USA a rogue state and then target every single back in Africa and anywhere else no inside the USA and terminate these resource stealing neo colonist down to the last man. Simply put, they steal oil from Syria and Libya without shame, sure when they day comes for judgement, all these thieves need to be dealt with something shape… none of this de-risking bullshit
 

Dark Father

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U.S. and Papua New Guinea sign defense pact​

A separate agreement will provide increased maritime surveillance of PNG territory
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Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape, left. PNG signed a defense cooperation agreement with the U.S. on May 22.
May 22, 2023 17:53 JSTUpdated on May 22, 2023 19:18 JST

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siegecrossbow

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Far-right veteran-run clothing brand astonished to find its suppliers
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Americans sure love their participation medals:

Air Force, Space Force hope
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can boost recruitment referrals​

The Stellar Talent Acquisition Recruiting Referral program (or STARR) aims to give military medals for every 3 people referred. The Air Force has fallen short of its recruitment goals by 10 percent.

To be fair Far Right Veteran group probably support persecuting Muslims in the U.S.
 
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