Public diplomacy

everythingexperiential.businessworld.in uncaptioned image from article The launch of the book was done by Honorable Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu amidst the presence of dignitaries like Dr. Sonal Mansingh, Shri Manoj Tewari, ambassadors and diplomats. Mansi Gulati, the yoga exponent and author launched her new book ‘Yoga and Mindfulness’ in association with Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis] Forum recently. The launch of the book was done by Honorable Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu amidst the presence of dignitaries like Dr. Sonal Mansingh, Shri Manoj Tewari, ambassadors and diplomats. Mansi Gulati addressed the audience and spoke about the benefits of yoga. She said her book ‘Yoga and Mindfulness’ was the simplest study on the subject which is based on the fact that yoga is not mere asanas but everything done with mindfulness and dedication.

koreajoongangdaily.joins.com Nov 16,2018이미지뷰Latvian Ambassador to Korea Peteris Vaivars holds a book on Latvian participation in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics at the embassy in central Seoul on Nov. 9. The country publishes a book that records Latvian participation at each Olympic Games. [PARK SANG-MOON]As he celebrates 100 years since the proclamation of the Republic of Latvia, Latvian Ambassador to Korea Peteris Vaivars emphasized the role that public diplomacy [JB emphasis] can play to bring the Baltic country closer to Korea. “Without successful public diplomacy, it is impossible to build any trade or business relations,” he told the Korea JoongAng Daily. “Especially for countries with limited human resources, we need to focus on how to build friendly and mutually beneficial relations. To do that, we have to first bring together the people. When more Latvians know Koreans and Koreans know Latvians, it brings out positive emotions and that transfers onto trade, business and other re..

Global Times,globaltimes.cn Image from article, with caption: Illustration: Liu Rui/GT US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC)'s 2018 annual report to Congress is more radical than it was in previous years. The bipartisan commission recommended that the US government establish a fund to counter Chinese infrastructure financing deals in the developing world that export China's "model of authoritarian governance". USCC, created through a congressional mandate in October 2000, is responsible for monitoring and investigating national security and trade issues between China and the US. The commission has been releasing reports on China almost every year since 2002. But maligning China has become USCC's way of going about its business. As Sino-US relations have worsened this year, many US think tanks raised their chorus to accuse China. Not to fall behind, USCC waved the anti-China flag even higher. In USCC's 2018 report, China's infrastructure finan..

Sheera Frenkel, Nicholas Confessore, Cecilia Kang, Matthew Rosenberg and Jack Nicas, The New York Times, Nov. 14, 2018; original article contains additional photographs and links See also John Brown, "Don't we all love Facebook? (updated, 10/14, 2018), Notes and Essays [Re a Facebook message that informed yours truly, a former Senior US Foreign Service diplomat focusing on public diplomacy, that "Someone reported you for impersonation," image (not from below article) from thereby, evidently, my being kicked off Facebook, which actually turned out to be a mental liberation in disguise! (I did provide the required proofs of my identity to Facebook, but never got a reply from "them" (i.e., the Algorithm?). Image from article, with caption: Facebook has gone on the attack as one scandal after another — Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — has led to a congressional and consumer backlash Sheryl Sandberg was seething. Inside Facebook’s Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, top exe..

Michael Hirsh, Foreign Policy, posted on businessinsider.com; see also (1) (2) "She's smart, put together, and sophisticated. But she's not someone who's going to go toe-to-toe on policy with John Bolton." Alex Brandon/Associated PressLongtime UN observers say Heather Nauert would also be the least qualified person ever to hold the job of US Ambassador to the UN. Critics say Nauert, who is currently the State Department's spokesperson, is almost without policy experience.Before becoming State Department spokesperson in 2017, Nauert worked as a correspondent for ABC and Fox News. She went on to become a news presenter and co-anchor.No one who has worked with Heather Nauert doubts that she's a pretty good briefer, or that the former Fox & Friends host is a winning personality on camera. But longtime UN observers say Nauert, who is said to be US President Donald Trump's leading candidate to replace outgoing United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, would also b..

Balasubramanyam Chandramohan, University of London, Dr. Dan Rycroft, University of East Anglia, diplomacybeyond.com image (not from article) from Academic diplomacy is an area under higher education activity that has real potential in today’s world. It has two key facets: practice and policy, and theory. Academic diplomacy as a practice, as a set of activities between individuals and between states, has existed for several centuries, though has rarely been termed as such [.]When scholars travelled long distances in search of knowledge and understanding, whether of the physical or the metaphysical world, they connected with people and spread ideas. Their diplomacy, so to speak, was purely academic. Ancient centers such as Kancheepuram or Nalanda in India and their modern-day equivalents all help to facilitate such exchanges. Circulation of knowledge displays academic diplomacy in action at an individual level which is, nowadays, termed as knowledge diplomacy or public diplomacy [JB emph..

image from Friendship pins Slovenia-Croatia From the New York Times: "Melania Trump Says an Aide [Ms. Mira Ricardel] ‘No Longer Deserves the Honor of Serving in This White House’" [see also.] A fixture in Republican foreign policy circles, Ms. [Mira Radielovic] Ricardel has honed a reputation as a hawk on policy and as a hard-edge bureaucratic infighter. During the early 1990s, she advised Senator Bob Dole on the Balkans, drawing on her own Croatian background, and later worked for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in President George W. Bush’s administration.From Wikipedia: "Born Mira P. Radielovic, she is of Croatian descent. Her father came from Breza, Bosnia and Herzegovina and left Yugoslavia in 1954 and arriving in the United States in 1956. Mira grew up in Pasadena, California, and at home spoke the Croatian language. Her family followed the Croatian Catholic Church and worshipped in Arcadia, California."***From the New York Times: "In First Lady’s Hometown in Slovenia, the B..

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