PD Happenings: Aug. 4 - 10

This Week in PD is a weekly 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.

Follow #TWiPD on Twitter Friday-Sunday for featured articles (in bold below).

Exchange Diplomacy

• Global Ties for Alabama Make the World Safer - WHNT News
• Rethinking the Place of the Chinese Student at Australian Universities - Financial Review
• Youth From Around the World Leave Their Mark at Istanbul Art Event - Daily Sabah
• Young Leaders Competed to Change the World in 5 Minutes - Education Diary
• Students from Northern Ireland Secure U.S. Business Scholarships - The Irish News
• Mountain Climbing Diplomacy - Tufts Now​​
• Trilateralism via Tourism: Promote People-to-People Ties - The Himalayan Times

Nation Branding

• UK Sees Record Tourism Growth in 2017 From India - ANI
• Can China Win the World’s Hearts by Showing It’s a Good Sport? - East Asia Forum
• Media the Three Ps of Nation Branding 2 - The Guardian
• Branding of Nigeria Air - The Sun
• In Crisis After Crisis, Israel Is Losing the Public Relations War. Is It Winnable? - Los Angeles Times
• Trump-Putin Summit Brought Media Exposure Worth €3.2 Billion to Helsinki - Helsinki Times

Soft Power

• The Korean Cultural Center in Beijing at Forefront of Soft Power Diplomacy - The Korea Times
• UK-US: "A Special Relationship"? - CPD Blog
• Russia Names Steven Seagal as a Goodwill Ambassador to the U.S. - The Washington Examiner
• Compassion and Good Neighborliness Define Ukranian Community's Relations Within Kazakhstan - The Astana Times
• Citizen Diplomacy: Indian, Pakastani Sing Both National Anthems Together - Urdu Point

Countering Disinformation

• Report: Estonia Underestimating Scope of Russian-led Information Disorder - ERR
• Narratives of Intolerance in Hungary Part 1: Closing Media, Closing Minds - CPD Blog

Digital Diplomacy

• The Saudis Deliver a Sobering Lesson: In Diplomacy, Words Do Matter - The Globe and the Mail
• Tips for DFAT: How to Facebook - The Interpreter (The Lowy Institute)

Economic Diplomacy

• Lessons from Down Under: The Soft Power Dividend of Financial Crime Technical Assistance - RUSI
• World Bank to Fund Punjab’s ‘Green Growth’ Project - Dawn

Global Dev

• UAE Central to Middle East Role in China’s Jinping-backed Belt and Road - Construction Week Online

Icons are courtesy of Flat Icon Basic License and are attributed to the following creators: Smartline (Exchange Diplomacy), Eucalyp (Nation Branding), Freepik (Soft Power, Global Dev), Good Ware (Countering Disinformation), Gregor Cesnar (Digital Diplomacy) and Becris (Economic Diplomacy).