Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream

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Xi Jinping’s Soccer Revolution is unique: the most extensive politicization and geo-politicization of the Global Game. His purpose is to extend the global softpower projection of the Middle Kingdom : an ancient Western imperial mantra ( bread and circuses ) has been replaced by a modern Eastern imperial mantra ( rice and pitches ). The Asian Football Federation shares this allopathic vision of East Asian soccer: the future is Asia and it starts in China! Soccer is a talisman for a New Asia in a New Era. For China soccer is a hubristic instrument of softpower projection. Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream makes this point forcefully. In East Asia soccer in now much more than a game !