It’s been nearly two months since China’s official media agency Xinhua debuted #Xiplomacy on Twitter. Xinhua, with a weighty 11 million Twitter followers, initially used the hashtag to push out a new multipart documentary series …
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A good political memoir offers the joy of the fight and the smell of the gang warfare. Insight is ever welcome. Ditto inspiration. Plus laughs to help the medicine go down. Gareth Evans’ Incorrigible optimist: …
Could the world soon witness another devastating war on the Korean peninsula? That question looms large in many conversations these days. Of course, concerns about the North Korean regime’s nuclear-weapons program are nothing new. The …
Nick Bryant went close to saying, ‘The emperor has no clothes!’ in his recent Lowy Interpreter article on rethinking of the value proposition of e-diplomacy. Appropriately, the post came to me via my Twitter feed …
Diplomatic missions routinely use social media, especially Facebook, as a platform for public diplomacy and consular support. Their main target audiences are local people. Among the 22 Facebook pages managed by Australian diplomatic missions (embassies, …