to improve our understanding of how adversaries gain informational and psychological advantages across all policies and empower a true public diplomacy capability to compete effectively in this arena . (b) Policy It is the policy of the United States to advance United States foreign policy and national security interests through a holistic approach to public diplomacy, which shall include the following: (1) Championing and promoting United States values, including democratic governance, individual liberty, and internationally recognized human rights. (2) Supporting the international dissemination of unbiased and fact-based information, and protecting the free flow of information globally. (3) Refuting and countering foreign state and nonstate propaganda, disinformation, and narratives that undermine United States values, such as the promotion of authoritarian governance, the denigration of individual liberty, and the disregard of internationally recognized human rights. (4) Discrediting foreign state and nonstate actors responsible for such propaganda, disinformation, and narratives, and seeking to reduce the ability of such actors to influence global discourse. (5) Coordinating and integrating such efforts with the efforts of United States allies and partners that share United States values. (6) Providing for robust exchange, analytic, and coordination mechanisms to accomplish such objectives. (c) Global engagement center Paragraph (3) of section 1287(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 ( 22 U.S.C. 2656 note