CMC makes training programmes on China for FCDO
In March 2021, China Media Centre was commissioned to deliver two one-hour educational programmes for The China Capability Programme run by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The two programmes are designed to improve the understanding of China by civil servants. Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of China Media Centre, interviewed 6 different experts on 2 subjects: The Governance of China and China and the International Rules Based Order. The interviews were edited by a former senior BBC news editor into two one-hour long programmes available through the International Academy’s training platform, accessible to civil servants across HMG.
The FCO (as it then was) was the China Media Centre’s first client when CMC was set up in 2005, commissioning CMC to brief several hundred Chinese media handlers and official spokespersons on the roles of the media and journalism in British society and polity. Commissioned under the Public Diplomacy Challenge Fund, the project was managed by Professor de Burgh and Professor Ivor Gaber, then of Goldsmiths College.
These are the names of those interviewed for the 2020 project:
Dr. Kishore Mahbubani, former Singaporean Ambassador to the UN, Professor Tony Saich of Harvard Kennedy School, Professor Daniel Bell of Shandong University, Professor Jane Duckett of Glasgow University, Dr. Tim Summers of Chatham House and Bonnie Glaser of the Central Institute of Strategic Studies in the US participated in the programmes.
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