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.
Google faces backlash from China’s state-run media
The apparently orchestrated attacks against the San Francisco internet giant came as the US warned that Beijing should "carefully consider" the implications of the world's most recognisable brand refusing to operate in China.
Walk the talks, Pak to US
With all eyes on Pak-US Strategic Dialogue opening here today (Wednesday), Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has called on the United States to "walk the talks" as people of Pakistan want meaningful and mutually cooperative relationship between the two countries.
Caution lights for the military’s ‘information war’
The United States should be careful about encouraging, in effect, the militarization of information -- and it should be especially cautious when these efforts bleed into the intelligence world. We are a nation that has prospered uniquely from open, untainted information flows.
What Obama Should Say
With expectations set so low, the meeting can still be used to good effect. Netanyahu would love to be able to declare the crisis over because he knows he will pay a political price at home if he is judged to have mishandled relations with Israel’s most important friend.
Will the Hillary Clinton Mexico visit bring a drug war shift?
But many hope the high-level delegation, which includes Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, also marks a new strategy by both countries to stem violence that appears to be closer than ever to US soil and that has propelled swaths of Mexico into a state of crisis.
UK expels Israeli diplomat over Dubai passports
Britain said on Tuesday it was expelling an Israeli diplomat after concluding that Israel had forged British passports used by the suspected killers of a Hamas commander in Dubai.
Muslims and Jews are closer than they think
Despite being in a protracted political conflict over the Holy Land that began around the time of the advent of Zionism over a century ago, Jews and Muslims have common historical roots, as well as theological commonalities.
Brazil seeks to expand its influence
Even the army officer who is in charge of training Brazil's peace-keeping forces argues the need for "hard power" as well as "soft power". "It is good if people think you are nice," said Colonel Pedro de Pessoa, commander of the army's Peace Keeping Operations Training Centre. "But they must also think that you are capable of being bad."
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