(Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here!) The video of Blinken's outstanding performance has amassed more than seven lakh views and garnered over 15,000 likes.
A user asked, 'Why isn’t this man POTUS?', means President of the United States. Other people showered heaps of praise on Blinken's video.
Blinken launched the Global Music Diplomacy Initiative to elevate music as a diplomatic tool to promote peace and democracy and support the US’ broader foreign policy goals. The Global Music Diplomacy Initiative aims to leverage public-private partnerships to create a music ecosystem that expands economic equity and the creative economy, ensures societal opportunity and inclusion, and increases access to education.
It will build on current public diplomacy music programs to create public-private partnerships with American companies and non-profits to use music to meet the moment, convey American leadership globally, and create connections with people worldwide. The Secretary announced the American Music Mentorship Program, the Fulbright-Kennedy Center Visiting Scholar Award in Arts and Science, and efforts to bring American music and lyrics into classrooms across the world as part of the United States’ investment in English-language learning worldwide.
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