Politicians across the Trump administration and U.S. Congress have been raising alarms all year about Chinese influence. Yet despite this, China achieved a remarkable soft power success in the form of the new animated movie "Abominable," which went straight to No. 1 in U.S. ticket sales during its opening weekend in late September.
The key to this soft power success was authenticity, which has often not been a priority for China or its big-budget film productions.
