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Let’s even set aside how this is probably lights-out for American global leadership and how, between this gut punch to the economic world order and Trump’s months of spurning military allies and abandoning soft power, China’s going to have a lot of new potential friends knocking on its door.

Agoa has long been viewed as an important tool of US soft power, especially in countering the growing influence of China and Russia in Africa.

It’s common after disasters for foreign countries to donate to relief efforts in a show of goodwill and a subtle flexing of soft power.

And if so, just how much soft power could they have to influence policy not only around population decline but about wider issues too?

He hopes that the local area will benefit from some of the soft power Jason describes.