Obama’s "Smart Power" Strategy And Its Impact On China

With the implementation of the Bush administration’s unilateral foreign policy, the U.S. reputation and influence in the world weakened, in order to achieve the goal of the US-led world, the U.S. government must be both hard and soft, civil and military and U.S. President Barack Obama on the basis of summing up the experience of the Cold War,"smart power" foreign policy. That foreign policy should be based on principled and pragmatic, rather than stick to the ideology; foreign policy must be based on facts and evidence, and should not be with the emotional bias. In all policy instruments to cope with various situations, such as political, economic, military, diplomatic, legal and cultural, should be soft and hard power up the challenges of an overall strategy to deal with complex international reality.China, chose the road of peaceful development, as "smart power" strategy in the United States can learn from taking economic construction as the center, build a "hard power";build a socialist core value system, to build the "soft power"; in on the basis of the Five Principles of peaceful Co-existence, drawing on "smart power" diplomacy, full international atmosphere to build an environment conducive to China’s peaceful development.