JAN 4, 2012
US State Department To Answer Twitter Questions Every Friday
Media Bistro
As part of its initiative to harness more digital technology for diplomacy, the US State Department will be taking questions via Twitter in 10 different languages, and answering them during a press briefing every Friday for the month of January.
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JAN 1, 2012
Books for Afghanistan keeps culture an open book
San Francisco Chronicle
The Books for Afghanistan program recently received a Public Diplomacy Grant award of $4.5 million from the U.S. State Department, which will allow it to print and distribute nearly 2.6 million books by September, including 1.7 million copies in Dari and Pashto, the major languages of Afghanistan. That's a huge boost from its paltry 2011 budget of $67,000 from private donors.
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DEC 30, 2011
Sino-Indian relations 2011: A Mixed Bag of Highs and Lows
Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses
As part of its public diplomacy exercise, China invited 500 Indian youth, who met Premier Wen Jiabao in the Great Hall of People on September 23. The youth delegation was led by India’s Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Ajay Maken.
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DEC 30, 2011
Eye on the big picture
The Times of India
It is nobody's case that India must mimic the West's position. Even so, as a society with much goodwill in the Middle East, where it is respected for its democracy and soft power and seen as an exemplar of a non-western modernity, India needs to be a presence in the region's new discourse.
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DEC 29, 2011
Glossy façades can’t hide an Indian spring
New Statesman
India's ascent to "new world power" is both true and what Edward Bernays, the founder of public relations, called "false reality"...What is always exciting about India is this refusal to comply with political mythology and gross injustice.
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