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.
Green Lessons Of The Games
Billing the Games as the Green Olympics, China will have to deliver on the air pollution score as convincingly as it is doing on the security front with robust and visible measures against terrorist threats. It will have to match the political and public relation skills with which it has defended its Tibet and human rights records.
Chinese Gov’t Won’t Allow Spread of Illegal Information Online
Sun Weide, the Beijing Olympics spokesman, at a press conference in the Main Press Center (MPC) of the Games, in response to some reporters' questions about the difficulties they met in browsing certain websites said, "We hope the media could respect relevant laws and regulations of China."
Olympics May Mean Change for China
If China can pull off a successful Olympics, open itself to the rest of us and introduce its people to the world, change will be inevitable. It's hard to imagine that won't benefit everyone.
IMG Scores a Sports Deal With China
IMG Worldwide Inc., the sports-marketing powerhouse, has struck an exclusive 20-year deal with China's national TV broadcaster that gives the U.S. company the right to develop and market new sports events in one of the world's fastest-growing markets for televised sports.
More Pressure on Beijing
President Bush is finally beginning to complain -- gingerly -- about China’s disgraceful wave of pre-Olympics repression.
Gates Strategy Stresses Unconventional Warfare
In his first "National Defence Strategy", Gates also called repeatedly for maintaining close cooperation with allies, both new and old, a contrast to the much more unilateralist orientation of previous Pentagon papers produced under his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, especially during the first term of President George W. Bush (2001-2005). Throughout the document, Gates also repeatedly stressed the importance of "soft power" -- as opposed to military strength alone -- in U.S. defence strategy, particularly with respect to what has been called "nation-building" and public diplomacy.
A Re-Engagement in the ‘War of Ideas?’
It is no secret that public diplomacy, a vital component of America’s strategic victory in the Cold War, has received inadequate attention in recent years. But, of course, we are still engaged in a war of ideas. Thus, the need for a public diplomacy which explains and defends our principles to the world is as needed today as it was on July 4, 1776, when the founders submitted the facts contained in the Declaration “to a candid world” out of “a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.”
Beijing’s chance for a public relations coup
Every Olympics is a political event, an effort by the government to project a modern image and boost its global status. The Nazis, for instance, used the Berlin games in 1936 as a propaganda instrument, with a heavy emphasis on monumental buildings that has echoes in today’s Beijing. Yet probably no Olympic Games has been so deeply tied to a political project as Beijing’s.
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