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...through the largest demonstration ever held at the test site. Nearly 2,000 people rode buses and cars into the desert to protest the first U.S. nuclear explosion of the year $ and the 25th since the Soviet Union unilaterally declared a moratorium on nuclear testing in August 1985. Nye County authorities arrested 438 people, including Astronomer Carl Sagan, Antiwar Activist Daniel Ellsberg, Actor Martin Sheen and Singer Kris Kristofferson, for trespassing on Department of Energy property. Said Sagan of the testing program: "We've built a kind of doomsday machine, which threatens certain global civilizations and possibly even the human...
...Nye began by arguing that “China’s culture is becoming more popular than it used to be.” He said that China is attracting more foreign tourists, and China Radio International is now more widely broadcast in other East Asian nations than the U.S.-backed Voice of America...
...Nye also pointed to the success of these efforts: a recent poll found that a majority of citizens in 23 out of 33 countries polled had a favorable view of Chinese power, against just 13 nations where a majority had a favorable opinion of U.S. power...
...audience member suggested that Chinese soft power could be a threat to the United States. But Nye responded that this was not inevitable. “The rise of Chinese power is not necessarily bad for other countries,” he said, arguing that if China remained peaceful, it could instead help East Asia become richer and more stable...
According to Nye, “nations can work together to increase soft power” through cultural exchange programs and trade agreements, for example...