What Aspects of Soft Power are Significant and Latent in China? A Chance Discovery Method from a Text Mining Perspective.

This paper uses KeyGraph, a chance discovery tool, to examine China's soft power and identify potential and possible future research topics. The experimental design examines 2,400 articles related to China's soft power. This examination demonstrates that current soft power studies on China focus more on the aspects of "promoting cultural development," "facilitating international influence," "safeguarding core value concepts," and "developing soft power with Chinese characteristics." Regarding the future evolution of soft power-related studies in China, this study concludes that several aspects remain the most promising issues for future study: cultural propaganda refinement, foreign policy adjustment, ideology entrenchment measures in the form of ideological and political education to propagate government policies and to strengthen civic control, and innovation of scientific development concepts. The identification of these areas will contribute to the field of Chinese soft power studies by serving as a valuable reference for future scholars. By observing the development and tendencies of Chinese soft power studies within the various stages of each topic's evolution, this paper extensively covers the applicable aspects of the fields of culture, diplomacy, politics, and economics. The conclusions derived from this study highlight the current status and possible future course of development of soft power-related studies in China by concerned domestic institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]