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  • The Dalai Lama and China’s Quest for Buddhist Soft Power

    The Dalai Lama and China’s Quest for Buddhist Soft Power

    Rinzin Dorjee, thediplomat.com, October 29, 2018
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    Religion, particularly Buddhism, is relevant more than ever in today’s China, whose government is expected to invest more than $1 trillion in its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). On one hand, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Xi Jinping acknowledges that religion can be used to feed the social vacuum in capitalist China. At the same time, the CCP has not strayed far from the position of Mao Zedong, who whispered to the Dalai Lama during the latter’s visit to Beijing in 1954 that “Religion is poison… both Tibet and Mongolia were poisoned by it.”Under the current leadership in Beijing, China employs Buddhism as a vital asset to resolve both the domestic crisis at home and add soft power to its diplomatic relations. Internationally, the narrative of China’s leadership of the Buddhist world is generated from its heavy investment in building Buddhist institutions in China and its engagements with Buddhist c..

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  • Re-Making Public Diplomacy: How the Fight Against Disinformation is Changing the Way We Talk With the World

    Re-Making Public Diplomacy: How the Fight Against Disinformation is Changing the Way We Talk With the World

    tufts.edu
    Re-Making Public Diplomacy [JB emphasis]: How the Fight Against Disinformation is Changing the Way We Talk With the World
    December 11 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
    Please join the Fletcher Eurasia Club and the Fletcher Diplomacy Club for an informal conversation with William Stevens, the former spokesperson of U.S. Embassy Moscow and now the chief of the U.S. Department of State’s training division for public diplomacy [JB emphasis]. Stevens will share his insights and experiences from working as the top U.S. public affairs official in Russia and discuss some of the creative ways his team engaged with misinformation and trolling. […]

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  • Likes’ are no substitute for action, Jordan’s queen tells online influencers

    Likes’ are no substitute for action, Jordan’s queen tells online influencers

    Rebecca Spong, arabnews.com, December 14, 2028
    Speaking at the third Arab Social Media Influencers Summit in Dubai, Queen Rania said people should use their online platforms to generate positive changeWinners recognized at the event included Queen Rania, who was named personality of the year for using social media to support humanitarian causes
    Image from article, with caption: Queen Rania argued social media should be harnessed as a tool to remove barriers between people, rather than create more divisions in society. (AFP)
    LONDON: Jordan’s Queen Rania has urged social media influencers to use their online presence to pursue the truth and promote humanitarian causes.
    Speaking at the third Arab Social Media Influencers Summit in Dubai on Monday, she said people should use their online platforms to generate positive change.
    The summit brought together 70 speakers from 25 countries to discuss the power of social media.
    “(In our virtual world) the truth is losing ground to emotional rhetor..

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