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What does "the hard edge of" mean

 
 
Reply Thu 19 Nov, 2009 05:40 am
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On October 1st China offered a stunning display of the hard edge of its rising power as it paraded its fast-growing military arsenal through Beijing.


What does "the hard edge of" mean here?

Thanks a lot.
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Reply Thu 19 Nov, 2009 09:09 am
It means nothing; it is merely excess verbiage by a bad writer.
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Reply 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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Reply 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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Reply 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
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