Developing relationships through common cultural references. You can mainlu use culture as a media to expand your influence in places where you already have a hold of the situation… In other places where you still have have to build your influence, and maybe an infrastructure, you invest in building roads and airports. Which is what China is doing with the "Road and Belt initiative ". If you think freezing foreign aid programs will Help America sustain it’s image around the world you don’t understand how foreign policy works. Exactly like Donald Trump and his cronies.

Amazing how you can’t have a thought deeper than the shallowest of puddles, have you ever thought about being observed by medical professionals?