The Chinamaxxing and "I am a very Chinese moment in my life" trend is an important indicator of Chinese soft power in countries like the United States, but it strikes me as still in a very rudimentary form. What is necessary is just not limited or momentary imitations of Chinese culture and life but a deeper integration of the Chinese culture with the native culture to form something lasting and new. What is most important is not a particular clothing fashion or recipe but a harmony of values, perspectives, and action, whatever form that may take.

When we think of American soft power, it was not that every country saw themselves as 'American," but perhaps they saw them as "international," and "young " and "urban," but what that meant is they were taking their own culture and combining it with cultural influences from America and the rest of the West. I think of cultural exchanges such as XiaoHongShu as I see a potential of a new sort identity forming in these Americans a "creole" combining old language with new. Yet Westernized internationalism and the new Chinese-led internationalism would be as different as United States unilateralism is from China'e Global Governance Initiative. While American soft power taught people to hate their own culture and idolize American culture, Chinese soft power has the potential of teaching people to affirm their own culture but in a new way which embraces and unites with Chinese culture. In my own case, I feel for China something akin to a sort of nationalism or patriotism, but encompassing the shared struggle of all peoples, a sort of Pan-Nationalism perhaps analogous to Pan-Africanism or Pan-Americanism. While it may be just a dream, I feel that the impacts of Chinese soft power is still only at its beginning, and that we could see a soft power that redefines soft power, an awakening of a pro-China pan-globalism, dawning like a sun to chase the darkness of imperialism chauvinism away from this world.