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.
Strategic Intelligence and National Security: The Role of Think Tanks
Sun Tzu’s dictum ‘Know your enemy’ has great significance for dealing with the challenges of the 21st century. Whether it is the maintenance of politico-economic relationships or offensive-defensive military operations...
State Newspapers Hedging on Ai Weiwei?
“We have been doing well on the development front,” the official, Zhao Qizheng, former head of the State Council Information Office, was quoted by China Daily as saying. “Now we need to talk better, to make our messages clearer to the world.”
Pyongyang’s food diplomacy goes light on the propaganda
Synthetic ivy and orange blossoms climb walls adorned with paintings of stirring Korean landscapes, silk flowers fill the vases and the karaoke machine is pumping out the hits as the dinner crowd fills Pyongyang, an incongruous outpost of North Korean culture and cuisine in the capital's teeming streets.
Why France moved forcefully on Ivory Coast, Libya
With its aircraft in the skies of Libya and Ivory Coast, France has suddenly escaped diplomatic obscurity to find itself taking a leading role in two military ventures that have arguably tipped the scales on behalf of civilians. This comes after France was embarrassingly late in embracing pro-democracy protests that successfully ousted its old allies in Egypt and Tunisia.
China Disabled Arts Group Performs At The National Theatre
A 57-member China Disabled Arts group – UNESCO Artists for Peace, arrive in Ghana on 18th April, 2011 for a 3-day official visit to the country. The visit to the country is in furtherance of the bilateral cultural agreement signed between the Republic of China and Ghana in the field of Cultural exchange, promotion and development.
Peace tastes great
Four Israeli master chefs from different ethnic and religious backgrounds cook up a variety of ways to make beautiful cuisine together. Taste of Peace (Taam Salaam in Arabic and Taam Shalom in Hebrew) was founded in 2009 by a multiethnic corps of chefs...Their first event was a "coexistence cooking competition" where 10 Jewish and 10 Arab chefs paired off to cook dishes together without knowing the recipe.
Mexico City: a wonderfully flawed megacity
This sprawl of 20 million people has been dubbed the “monstruo” and slandered as an urban disaster for its chaotic slums, murderous gridlock and mountain smog. But less touted is how La Capital is a paradise for bohemian Americans and Europeans, hub of fashion designers and driving force of Latin American youth culture
Persian Photography Broadens The View
"Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran," featuring 58 works of photography and video by 20 Iranian photographers, is one-half of a cultural exchange with a gallery at the University of Minnesota, and already has toured the states extensively, even during times when official U.S. relations with Iran were at their worst.
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