Tag: China

Public Diplomacy On the Way to the Office

December 2, 2013 public diplomacy 2 Comments
On my relatively short commute the office this morning I came across three separate examples of public diplomacy — each of them conducted by a foreign country with target audiences in the United States. First, I read a charming op-ed by the Chinese Ambassador in the Washington Post that begins with the…

A Comprehensive Public Diplomacy Strategy for Myanmar

May 22, 2012 public diplomacy 2 Comments
In the past year, Myanmar has been hailed internationally for taking unprecedented steps towards democracy, but what it hopes to gain from democratization–increased investments, development aid, diplomatic relations, and national security–will only be fully realized if the Myanmar government incorporates public diplomacy as a central part of its transition strategy.…

Actions in Beijing Speak Volumes

May 7, 2012 public diplomacy 1 Comment
In March of last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (my former boss), in testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, feared we were “losing an information war” to the Chinese, Russians and al Jazeera. She was certainly right that the United States faces greater competition from other nations, non-governmental entities…

Corporate Policy, Social Media and Collective Action

March 23, 2012 public diplomacy No Comments
Will Youmans, a PhD student at Michigan, and SuperTweeter Jillian York (@jilliancyour), of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, have a new piece in Journal of Communication  titled “Social Media and the Activist Toolkit: User Agreements, Corporate Interests, and the Information Infrastructure of Modern Social Movements.” The article looks at four case…