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.
What do FUNERAL, CRISIS and PUBLIC diplomacy have in common?
Looking forward to your comments on how Russian President Medvedev linked a funeral, a crisis and public diplomacy.
Korea unveils Shanghai Expo business exhibit
With less than two weeks to go before the start of the World Expo Shanghai, the Korea Business Pavilion showcasing 12 major conglomerates was unveiled yesterday. According to the Korea International Trade Association, which oversees Korean participation in the world’s largest exposition, the three-story pavilion is built on a 3,000-square-meter (32,291-square-feet) area.
Cyberattack on Google Said to Hit Password System
Ever since Google disclosed in January that Internet intruders had stolen information from its computers, the exact nature and extent of the theft has been a closely guarded company secret. But a person with direct knowledge of the investigation now says that the losses included one of Google’s crown jewels, a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide to almost all of the company’s Web services, including e-mail and business applications.
U.S. Summons Top Syrian Diplomat
State Department's announcement late Monday that it had summoned the Syrian acting ambassador, Zouheir Jabbour, offered the strongest indication yet of how the U.S. fears the alleged arms transfer could destabilize the Middle East and potentially lead to new conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
India is rising, but it remains uncomfortable with its new power
Yet, in order to understand India’s political and diplomatic relationship with the outside world, the most enlightening comparison is with the United states in 1920. Like the US after World War I, India is realizing that its status and role in the world have been deeply transformed in the last two decades. And, like America then, India is not naturally at ease with the notion of exercising global power.
The Rise of Asia’s Universities
Beginning in the 1960s, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan sought to provide their populations with greater access to post-secondary education, and they achieved impressive results. Today, China and India have an even more ambitious agenda. Both seek to expand their higher-education systems, and since the late 1990s, China has done so dramatically.
Obama, don’t forget Jerusalem
Many Israelis wonder. Obama "needs to address Israelis' fears," the Israeli philosopher Carlo Strenger wrote recently in Haaretz. So far, Obama has done just the opposite, even going to Cairo to assure the Palestinians and the greater Arab world that he appreciates their plight without assuring Israelis that he appreciates theirs.
How’s That Appeasement Working Out?
Obama administration officials told me that if they could not induce Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to hold a reasonably free and fair election, they would at the very least "tell it like it is." So why are they pulling their punches? The advocacy community sees in the administration's soft line on Sudan an act of consummate cynicism, and perhaps the most vivid proof to date that "engagement" is English for realpolitik.
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