US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 14. He announced that he had signed an executive order ending the city’s preferential trade treatment. Photo: AP US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 14. He announced that he had signed an executive order ending the city’s preferential trade treatment. Photo: AP
US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 14. He announced that he had signed an executive order ending the city’s preferential trade treatment. Photo: AP
Scott Laderman
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Scott Laderman

Donald Trump’s ending of the Fulbright programme in Hong Kong and China damages US soft power

  • The programme is one of the more successful examples of US cultural diplomacy
  • While Beijing’s threat to Hong Kong is serious, the US has maintained its Fulbright programmes with other countries it sees as adversaries

Scott Laderman
Scott Laderman

Updated: 1:20am, 23 Jul, 2020

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 14. He announced that he had signed an executive order ending the city’s preferential trade treatment. Photo: AP US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 14. He announced that he had signed an executive order ending the city’s preferential trade treatment. Photo: AP
US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 14. He announced that he had signed an executive order ending the city’s preferential trade treatment. Photo: AP
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Scott Laderman

Scott Laderman

Scott Laderman is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and was the Fulbright Visiting Professor of American Studies at the University of Hong Kong in 2015-2016. Among his recent books is Imperial Benevolence: US Foreign Policy and American Popular Culture since 9/11, a collection of essays he co-edited with Tim Gruenewald of HKU.