The cable instructs those embassies and consulates to pursue five broad goals: countering hostile messaging, expanding access to information, exposing adversary behavior, elevating local voices who support American interests, and promoting what it calls “telling America’s story”. Embassies are told to recruit local influencers, academics and community leaders abroad to carry counter-propaganda messaging, an approach designed to make American-funded narratives feel locally organic rather than centrally directed.

Well look at that! The Trump administration has just discovered the need to engage in #publicdiplomacy
#GI7100 #GI5052 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

King hails the 'living bridge' with Nigeria's UK community At the state banquet in Windsor Castle, King Charles praises the UK's partnership with Nigeria.

King Charles speaks of a 'living bridge' with Nigeria #GI7100

BBC World Service to get extra £11m a year in deal ending funding uncertainty Corporation welcomes three-year settlement as it continues to push for government to take on all of service’s costs

Just fund the BBC World Service properly. It costs peanuts in the overall scheme of things and is money very well spent #GI7100

Voice of America employees can return to work. Up yours, Elon Musk
#GI7100 #GI5052

Aipac in the era of Trump: the pro-Israel Super Pac that has become an electoral liability The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has spent decades as one of DC’s most formidable lobbying forces

AIPAC in the era of Trump: the pro- #Israel Super Pac that has become an electoral liability #GI7100

Well, that shouldn’t be called beer
#gastrodiplomacy #gastro-antidiplomacy #GI7100 @levantine18.bsky.social

‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, bu...

The teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school #propaganda
#GI7100 #Russia

Michael Hutchinson, a former racing cyclist who has represented Great Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland at different tournaments, says most Northern Irish athletes in Rio "will be fairly laid back about it". In fact, of the 29 athletes from Northern Ireland in Rio, the vast majority - 21 - have chosen to represent Team Ireland, including Belfast-born boxer Paddy Barnes, who was the team's flag bearer at the opening ceremony. Only eight are representing Team GB. One thing is certain. "Team Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Channel Islands and UK Overseas Territories" doesn't roll easily off the tongue.

Some interesting points regarding Northern Ireland in this piece about why the UK's athletes compete as Team GB #GI7100 #nationbrands www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...

How America Lost Its Voice Overseas Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other outlets spread American values for 80 years, writes Joshua Muravchik. Now they’ve been mothballed.

How #America Lost Its Voice Overseas, by Joshua Muravchik
#GI7100 #GI5052 #GI6051

BBC World Service faces funding cliff edge in seven weeks, says Tim Davie As trust in Russia and China’s state broadcasters grows, director general warns of the dangers of cutting back the service

So much for 'Global Britain', so much for British #softpower #GI7100 #GI5052 #UK

Opposition to US has hardened in western Europe after Greenland threat, poll finds Large majorities in six nations express antipathy to Trump’s US and support European self-assertion

Trump’s trashing of Brand America revealed in European surveys
#GI7100 #GI5052 #nationbrand

#GI7100 #GI5052 #UK #broadcasting #iran

Just over a year ago, Marco Rubio set out the Trump administration’s rather unique approach to diaspora diplomacy, and public diplomacy more generally, as we discussed in our #GI7100 class this morning

I love the footage of the attempt by Turkmenistan President Niyazov to gift his prized horse Maksat to Britain's prime minister John Major, in Adam Curtis’s Russia, 1985-1999: Trauma-Zone (episode 5)
#gifts #GI5051 #GI7100 #GI7037

Taiwan could use more food diplomacy - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

‘Taiwan could use more food diplomacy,’ by Paul Rockower (@levantine18.bsky.social)
#GI7100 #GI5052 #gastrodiplomacy

Sports diplomacy, of a sort
#GI5052 #GI7100

Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize, in letter to Norway's PM The US president says he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace, after not being awarded the annual prize.

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace": not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize has really stuck in Trump's loose turkey-neck-like craw
#GI5051 #GI5052 #GI7037 #GI7100

Why a Chinese ‘mega embassy’ is not such a worry for British spies Politicians are raising the alarm, while MI5 quietly welcomes the prospect of Beijing’s new London facility

‘[M]odern technology and the nature of the Chinese threat means that, in the words of one former British intelligence officer, “embassies are less and less relevant”.’
#GI5051 #GI7037 #GI7100 #china #espionage #transnationalrepression

UK’s image overseas This report shows the UK results of the latest annual Anholt Nation Brands Index study, which ranks 50 nations on a range of attributes including some relating to tourism, culture and people.

How the world sees the #UK (according to Anholt's Nation Brands Index 2025) #GI7100 #GI5052 #brand

#Brand America
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The top 15 in the 2025 Nation Brands Index #GI7100 #GI5052 #brand static1.squarespace.com/static/673b9...

A check-in on the American brand The American brand has attracted people and businesses to this country for decades. What happens if it changes?

What is happening to brand America? #GI7100 #GI5052

How the world sees the world in 2025 The Anholt Nation Brands Index began measuring the images of countries in 2005. I launched the study because nobody had ever previously attempted a systematic, global review of how general public…

Simon Anholt on this year's results of his Nation Brands Index survey
#GI5052 #GI7100 #brand

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.

#China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research #GI7100

And there it is. Trump dumps the US out of the top 10 of the Nation Brands Index, as revealed in Simon Anholt's LinkedIn post www.linkedin.com/posts/simona... #GI7100 #GI5052

BBC World Service - The Global Story, Putin’s new Eurovision Why is Vladimir Putin relaunching Intervision, the Soviet era version of Eurovision?

Putin’s new Eurovision: Why is Vladimir Putin relaunching Intervision, the Soviet era version of Eurovision?
#GI7100 #GI5052 #Russia

Unbrand America, but mixed evidence that consumers around the world are ditching US companies
#GI7100 #GI5052 #nationbrand

“Zionism was the negation of the Diaspora” (pp. 14-15) #GI7100 #Israel

Denmark summons US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence campaign Danish media reports three men with ties to Donald Trump are accused of attempting to infiltrate Greenlandic society

Denmark summons US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence campaign
#GI5052 #GI7100

#GI7100 #GI5052 #Russia