When Soft Power Turns Sharp: How Chinese Sharp Power Alters Citizen's Perception in the United States

• In Event: Chinese Foreign Policy

Brief Overview

We argue that the impact of sharp power varies in accordance with citizens' partisanship and their prior perception of the foreign nation. To test our theory, we implemented an online survey experiment in June 2018, with 959 respondents.

Authors

• Yao-Yuan Yeh, University of St Thomas-Houston

• Charles Kuan-Sheng Wu, Purdue University-Main Campus

• Wei-hao Huang, Academia Sinica