Kinas maktspel mot Australien : En kvalitativ fallstudie av Kinas nyttjande av hård och mjuk makt gentemot Australien

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this paper has been to analyse the use of soft and hard powerby The People´s Republic of China on the Commonwealth of Australiaduring the period of 2012-2022 which also has been the time when XiJinping has held the power in China. With the use of the concept of softpower introduced by Joseph Nye and hard power, the paper furtheroperationalize these types of power into several resources which are analysedto see how Chinas use of power against Australia has developed during the10-year period. The result of the paper shows that Chinas use of soft andhard power against has become more aggressive due to political developmentin China and the worsening of diplomatic relationship between the states.Furthermore, the study also shows that Chinas use of soft power are distinctto that of other states.