Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson review
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Evan Feigenbaum: U.S. is overplaying its hand with Australia
Evan Feigenbaum from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace comments on the U.S. request to Australia about pre-committing its role in the event of U.S.-China going into conflict over Taiwan, and says “Australian governments do not outsource sovereign choices about where Australian military assets can and can’t or will and won’t be deployed”.
Evan Feigenbaum, a former diplomat, has been an advisor to two American Secretaries of State, a former Treasury Secretary, the CEOs and boards of leading companies, and investment funds in all asset classes. He has negotiated with dictators and ex-guerillas, written a book on China as a high-tech superpower, and worked with and in countries from China to India, Australia to Kazakhstan. He is vice president for studies of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the world’s oldest international affairs think tank. To host him for a speaking opportunity, contact WWSG.
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