Too aggressive a Chinese military posture could produce a countervailing coalition among its neighbors that would weaken both its hard and soft power.

如果中国高调扩张其军事力量，这可能会导致其邻国结盟，最后造成两败俱伤的局面。

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Entering the 21st century, cultural factors as "soft power," like "hard power" such as economy and military, play an important role as a manifestation of the competitiveness of countries or regions.

进入21世纪，文化因素作为“软实力”与经济、军事因素等“硬实力”一样，在体现国家或地区的竞争力上起着重要的作用。

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In the international market, not only economic, and military "hard power" area of intense competition, But also in culture as the core of the "soft power" is more competition in the gun smoke.

在国际市场里，不仅经济、军事等“硬实力”领域竞争激烈，而且在以文化为核心的“软实力”竞争中更是硝烟弥漫。

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About twenty years ago, there was a common belief that military power meant little, that the soft power of Germany and Japan would rule the world.

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As a "combatant command plus, " one that mixes soft and hard power and thus military and civilian personnel, AFRICOM will be a hybrid giant staffed by an interagency personnel kaleidoscope.

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Given the limits to the use of military power, and the budget constraints and unintended consequences of using payments to buy support from other countries, soft power is critically important to the U.S. ability to influence events in the world.

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