Orchids sow seeds of ROC soft power success
The latest high-profile success chalked up by the island’s orchids took place in the U. K. last month when the hybrid moth orchid Doritaenopsis Elizabeth II was included in the Royal Horticultural Society International Orchid Register. This welcome leg up for Taiwan’s reputation as a leading player in the global orchid industry comes not long after the island won royal approval and critical recognition at the biggest horticultural event in the U. K. , the Chelsea Flower Show. It seems hardly a week goes by without these fragrant flowers garnering headlines for all the right reasons in the international press. But these have been largely overcome through the use of soft power, which can be defined as a country’s ability to influence events through persuasion and attraction as opposed to military of financial coercion.
Taiwan Today on 01.01.70 | File Under Flower Show | Comments
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