相反，中共坚持认为政府是软实力的主要来源，推广其认为具有全球吸引力的古代文化形象 — — 通常是通过宣传工具进行。
Instead, it has clung to the view that the government is the main source of soft power, promoting ancient cultural icons that it thinks might have global appeal, often using the tools of propaganda.