Coping with Kaleidoscopic Change in the Middle East
I come before you this morning at this important conference with many questions and no answers.
I come before you this morning at this important conference with many questions and no answers.
I’m here to speak to you about the United States, the Middle East, and China.
There comes a time in every man’s life when he has more to recall than to anticipate. Like everyone else in this room today, I keep striving to reach that point and falling short. I can’t help looking to the future, because that's where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
It’s a pleasure to speak to this colloquium on “the use of the diplomatic instrument” of statecraft with China. The subject is timely. China, its international environment, and its relations with the United States are undergoing a sea change, and American diplomacy seems a bit adrift.
China’s once-in-a-decade leadership change has just been completed with the appointment of Xi Jinping as president and Li Keqiang as premier of the world’s second-largest economy. Given China’s appetite for oil as well as its growing political role in the world at large, changes in Beijing ca
It’s a pleasure to be back among friends at a Pacific Pension Institute roundtable. The last time we were together was in July 2011, when PPI met in Vancouver. I spoke then about the shifting strategic geometry of Asia and its impact on the world order.
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