India emerges as key focus in Trump administration’s new public diplomacy strategy

Washington, July 31 India has emerged as part of the Trump administration’s evolving public diplomacy strategy as Washington shifts greater attention towards Asia while overhauling the way it communicates with overseas audiences, a senior US official told lawmakers. Sarah Rogers, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), said Asia would be one of the agency’s principal areas of focus as the United States responds to growing information campaigns by China and other authoritarian governments. “Asia, huge focus,” Rogers told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while outlining her vision for the agency, which oversees Voice…