A curated selection of public diplomacy-relevant news from a global cross-section of English-language media outlets, including independent, corporate-owned, and state-sponsored sources. The stories featured don't necessarily represent CPD's views nor have they been verified by CPD.
All the World’s A Stage: America’s Image in the Muslim World
One challenge is that Muslims tend to believe the United States is inconsistent when it comes to democracy. When in 2007 Pew asked whether the United States promotes democracy wherever it can or mostly where it serves its interests, Muslims overwhelmingly answered the latter. And stories about prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo have added to the perception that America does not always practice the respect for individual rights it espouses.
China employs sing-song diplomacy
It may sound more highbrow than ping-pong diplomacy, but China hopes that an orchestral performance at the Vatican tomorrow will be as effective in thawing frosty relations. Diplomatic ties between the Catholic church and Beijing were severed shortly after the Communists took power in 1949 and Catholics in China had to worship underground.
The concert of the Chinese orchestra at the Vatican
The China Philharmonic Orchestra of Beijing and the chorus of the Shanghai Opera will perform Mozart's Requiem and Chinese folk songs for Benedict XVI. Interpretations of the event abound: preparation for diplomatic relations; publicity by Beijing to improve its image, after the violence in Tibet and international criticism.
Pakistani activists, students on goodwill visit to India
A group of youth activists and students from Pakistan is on a goodwill visit to India to enlist the help of young Parliamentarians to promote peace moves and people-to-people contacts between the two countries.
Presidential Candidates Urged to Use International Education to Improve U.S. Global Image
The next president needs to act deliberately to respond to “serious concerns” about the United States’ standing on the global stage and should act to leverage international-education programs as a way to build a strong foundation for collaboration with other nations, officials at NAFSA: Association of International Educators said in an interview posted on a blog about public diplomacy in the 2008 presidential election.
Listen! A professor of marketing is talking (II)
What are your views about brand Nigeria? What are those things we need to fix? And those things we need to play up? Brand Nigeria’ is at a pivotal stage at the moment. We initially confused branding with advertising.
The Facets Of Chinese Nationalism
Frequently the past few months, I have been asked about the wisdom of using the Olympics as an opportunity to push China to improve its human rights record. Underlying these questions is a sense that international pressure may have played into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party by triggering nationalist emotions and rallying indignant Chinese people behind the regime.
The Chinese Student Frontline in PRC’s Olympic Public Diplomacy
The US government has (especially in its more lucid moments) seen the public diplomacy benefit to America of having foreign students at US universities, though it's striking how complex achieving that goal has been to administer post 9/11. But it's interesting to see the strategy for the sending country, in this case China. There are now 45,000 Chinese students in the United States. This carries the potential for them to become a voice in the US. We've seen the effect of this in the torch debates and the counterpart protests elsewhere.
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