China likely to wield more soft power in coming decades

Distinguished Visiting Prof Asit K Biswas of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS and Dr Cecilia Tortajada, Senior Research Fellow at the School, opined that China’s soft power is likely to increase significantly during the coming decades. However, it will depend on many imponderables, including how the country handles the current South China Sea disputes and border issues with its neighbours, continues its rapid economic growth, finds solutions to its extensive environmental pollution problems, how it performs at various UN and other international fora, and how it handles climate change mitigation, and hosts other events.

• The Business Times, 25 January 2018, p23