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.
Chinese official: China-UK Women’s Cultural Festival to foster understanding, friendship
The China-UK Women's Cultural Festival will further enhance mutual understanding between women of the two countries and draw specific links between Beijing and London on hosting Olympic Games, a visiting Chinese official said here on Monday.
Group of NGOs will push Arab League to adopt uniform policy on climate change
Daily Star
The Arab Climate Network will take its first step this week in creating a united Arab policy on climate change, as network co-founder Wael Hmaidan leaves for Jordan to talk with environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) about joining the network…Aside from political and economic concerns, the fledgling network also wants to make Arab people, not just NGOs and bureaucrats, aware of the importance of climate issues, Hmaidan said.
Implementing AFRICOM
One of the Foreign Service's most experienced Africa specialists assesses the Pentagon's new Africa Command and finds there will be issues, but they can be managed, and it will be "up to U.S. ambassadors in the field to guide all these new boots into careful paths."
EC ready to impose price cuts on cross-border texting
The Guardian
"I want to see the end of these artificial borders between networks and nations which are both preventing private consumers and business customers from benefiting fully from the single borderless market we have created between 27 EU countries so far."
US African Foreign Policy Evaluated
Coverage of the USC conference on the United States' new military operative in Africa stresses the importance of taking a supporting rather than a dominating role in African foreign policy.
U.S. Must Modernize Foreign Aid to Re-establish US Global Standing
PR Newswire/Oxfam America
"The next president has a chance to create a better foreign aid system that will help lift millions from poverty and re-establish US global standing," said Raymond C. Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America. "Foreign assistance is the international face of the US, and right now, it's pretty ugly."
Soccer as an Escape to Hope for Afghan Teenager
The New York Times
In the spring of 2006, Kohestani was among 250 girls who took part in a five-day clinic in Kabul sponsored by the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange. She was back in America that summer and met President Bush and accepted the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs on behalf of all Afghan female soccer athletes. Kohestani is an observant Muslim, saying her prayers at the appointed times in her dormitory room. She talks about her faith when her classmates ask, but mostly she reassures them that she is tolerant of the mores of American teenagers.
A New Middle East, After All
American Enterprise Institute
In his December 29 declaration on Iraq, bin Laden savagely attacked Sunnis who are working with the Americans, calling them guilty of "clear infidelity and an open apostasy"….Commentary like this influences Muslim attitudes far more than all of America's public-diplomacy outreach; it is worth far more, too, than the soft-power appeal of any Barack Obama signaling his empathy with the downtrodden of the Third World.
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