{"id":142785,"date":"2025-12-21T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142785"},"modified":"2025-12-21T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:00:11","slug":"from-labubu-to-blockbuster-films-was-2025-the-year-chinas-soft-power-went-mainstream-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=142785","title":{"rendered":"From Labubu to blockbuster films, was 2025 the year China\u2019s soft power went mainstream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCatch up on some of SCMP\u2019s biggest stories about China\u2019s soft power this year. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing.<br \/>\n1. Labubu, soft power of a stealthy \u2018ugly-cute\u2019 sort, takes on America<br \/>\nThe Chinese-made dolls, a playful global megahit, give Beijing an opportunity to make inroads into deep US distrust.<br \/>\n2. \u2018Huge shift\u2019: why learning Mandarin is losing its appeal in the West<br \/>\nAvailable figures suggest enthusiasm for learning Mandarin abroad is waning after&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3335844\/labubu-blockbuster-films-was-2025-year-chinas-soft-power-went-mainstream?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCatch up on some of SCMP\u2019s biggest stories about China\u2019s soft power this year. If you would like to see more of our reporting,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"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\/142785"}],"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=142785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}