{"id":12843,"date":"2021-06-24T00:30:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12843"},"modified":"2021-06-24T00:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:30:17","slug":"how-a-cute-baby-elephant-sheds-light-on-chinas-quest-for-soft-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12843","title":{"rendered":"How a cute baby elephant sheds light on China\u2019s quest for soft power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn a bid to shape international public opinion about China, President Xi Jinping told senior officials that the country needed to present a more \u201ccredible, lovable, and respectable\u201d image of China. This surprising formulation is more than a call to tame the \u201cWolf Warrior\u201d rhetoric. The key word here is ke ai, translated by the official media as \u201clovable\u201d. But ke ai literally means \u201ccute\u201d.The idea of cuteness as soft power may seem odd on the face of it. But the rapid spread of what we can term\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/comment\/opinion\/article\/3138418\/how-cute-baby-elephant-sheds-light-chinas-quest-soft-power?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostIn a bid to shape international public opinion about China, President Xi Jinping told senior officials that the country needed to present a more&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}