US soft power weakened by 'culture war'

Joseph Nye, the late US scholar who first coined the concept of "soft power", wrote an article in the Financial Times on March 8, lamenting that the soft power of the United States ended after President Donald Trump took office. It can be imagined that Nye died — on May 6 — with regrets. In his article, Nye underscored that the "America First" policy of the Trump administration had severely eroded the liberal values and institutions of the US, thus significantly weakening its soft power in the world.