President Donald Trump's recent executive order withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council as well as the Department of Government Efficiency's effective shut down of the United States Agency for International Development appears to signal both the United States' declining role as an international human rights leader and the decline of American soft power abroad. Volume XLVIII staff editor Kate Wittpenn argues that eroding soft power could create a power vacuum for China's civil society workers, diminishing international influence and economic opportunity for the United States.
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