Soft Power and Self-Determination in an Age of Expansionism
Andrei Iosifescu /March 11, 2025As President Ronald Reagan bid our nation farewell in 1989, he recalled an amusing anecdote from the South China Sea. The USS Midway aircraft carrier had spotted a small, ramshackle boat of Indonesian refugees, and as one of its sailors approached to assist them, he received a joyous greeting: “Hello, American sailor! Hello, freedom man!” […]