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India key focus in Trump’s new US public diplomacy push
The Trump administration's nominee to lead the US Agency for Global Media, Sarah Rogers, told a Senate committee that India and Japan are priority countries in a revamped public diplomacy strategy. Rogers…
The Story in Brief
The Trump administration's nominee to lead the US Agency for Global Media, Sarah Rogers, told a Senate committee that India and Japan are priority countries in a revamped public diplomacy strategy. Rogers said Asia is a 'huge focus' as the US responds to information campaigns by China and other authoritarian governments. USAGM runs Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and other state-funded broadcasters.
Rogers outlined plans to shift from traditional radio and TV towards short-form video, podcasts and diaspora group chats. She said her own heavy use of Twitter in engaging foreign audiences reflects the need to adapt to modern media habits. The agency's mission concentrates on countries where independent information is restricted, naming Iran, Afghanistan and Cuba alongside Asia.
The Indian Opinion
Some will read this as a benign offer of democratic dialogue, others as another front in the great power contest with China. The lazy narrative is to tag every US move as either altruistic or predatory. The real test is what reaches the Indian village, not the Delhi think-tank. Will US-funded content ever speak in a regional tongue? That number, the number of daily Indian-language users of Voice of America, will tell us whether this is outreach or noise.
Source: thehansindia.com
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