It means nothing; it is merely excess verbiage by a bad writer.
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engineer
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Thu 19 Nov, 2009 09:20 am
@jinmin1988,
"Hard" here means something like "blunt, agressive". It's like the phrases "hard power" and "soft power" where soft power is influence based on size, position and political influence and hard power is militarily based.
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JTT Selected Answer
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Fri 20 Nov, 2009 09:09 pm
@jinmin1988,
Hey Jinmin,how gozit?
"the hard edge of its rising power" means the strongest, toughest, most to be feared part of its rising power.
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oolongteasup
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Fri 20 Nov, 2009 09:33 pm
@jinmin1988,
its alludes to a sword
might, strength, cutting
let the ascription of materiality to an abstract noun henceforth be known as a jinmin in your honour