Hillary Clinton: “China's filling that gap, particularly in Africa.”

“There are a lot of tools in the toolkit, and among those tools are soft power development, which we have unfortunately decided is not going to be a prominent tool in how we try to, you know, influence people, persuade them. China's filling that gap, particularly in Africa. So it's, you know, to me, you don't get into office and say everything that was ever done going back to the founding of the country was wrong.” (10:06–10:10)

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