TY - BOOK AU - DE CASTRO Renato Cruz TI - Confronting China's charm offensive in East Asia: a simple case of fighting fire with fire? PY - 2009/// KW - CHINA KW - SOFT POWER KW - UNITED STATES KW - FOREIGN POLICY KW - EAST ASIA N2 - Assessment of America's response to China's growing use of soft power in East Asia. Suggests that the USA should make prudent use of its co-optive capability rather than simply increase funds for official development assistance to increase U.S. soft power ER -