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China backs off from fight with K-Pop fans

11 mins | Oct 26, 2020
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Deciphering how fans of the Korean band BTS took on China, and won. After China’s media offensive against the kings of K-pop barely lasted two days, expert in Asian politics and economy, S. Nathan Park, reflects in Foreign Policy on how a K-pop disagreement shows that China could learn a lot from the well-received soft power of South Korea.

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