Kissinger Institute

.@katiestallard to Dave Rank: "I was always told by British diplomats 'don't engage in microphone diplomacy. What works?"

Rank: "The trend I noticed is the waning leverage we had on those issue. The Chinese are turning the leverage of human rights on us. Their embrace of aspects of capitalism give them leverage over human rights issues, not through government but through corporations"

.@Walker_CT of @NEDemocracy identifies 3 vectors on human rights issues w/r/t China : regional and international bodies, economic and commercial, and realm of ideas

.@Walker_CT : investment of what seemed like gray authoritarian entities were dismissed, argues that US needs to be more "competitive in the ideas space"

Robert Daly on @SouthPark episode, ban, 'apology' notice: "Domestically, the difficulty with a risen China and a peer competitor is that it puts pressure on inherent vulnerabilities between core American values that haven't been challenged - security, commercial, and opennness"

Daly: "Architects of American soft power are proving to be easily bought. Security interests don't have a common vocabulary" on issues.

.@katiestallard : "Obama used to say 'when we go abroad, we don't leave our values at home. Does that also apply to US officials and companies?" Rank: "Officials, certainly, but it was developed that liberalism and capitalism were the same thing..."

Rank finds that China uses elements of to "push for their interpretation of human rights and social contract". Finds hopes "misplaced" on American expectations on companies to fulfill values and fiduciary responsibilities at same time