The 2023 recipient of Asia Society Texas' Roy M. Huffington Award for Contributions to International Understanding is Gary Locke, former two-term governor of Washington State and U.S. ambassador to China.
Reacting to departing U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke’s February 27 farewell news conference in Beijing, the state-run China News Service published a critique by Wang Ping that called Ambassador Locke a “banana.”Kaiser Kuo:Banana or Twinkie for “white-on-the-inside” East Asian Americans, Oreo for African-Americans, coconut for South Asian-Americans, apple for Native Americans these
wanted it. from my standpoint i m not going to make any money. in my opinion, i m not going to make any money. i don t want to make money. joining me now, nbc s kelly o donnell in france. msnbc political analyst eugene robinson, columnist at the washington post, gary locke, former commerce secretary and former u.s. ambassador to china and former governor, and nick burnses, professor of diplomacy and international relations at the harvard kennedy school and former u.s. ambassador to nato. kelly o, you re there in france. more than passing strange when the president, asked about potential conflicts of interest by our white house chief correspondent hallie jackson didn t only defer and say there s a long time between now and then, he went into a full-blown real estate advertisement. he was the chamber of commerce director for miami and the doral. reporter: it was the pitch
single year. $500 billion. you just can t do that. somebody had to do this. and he was the chosen one, i guess. ambassador locke, isn t it true that president xi can outwait donald trump? both sides need to reach an agreement. it s hurting both countries and the pocketbooks of americans. federal reserve indicated the current tariffs already in place, never mind the ones contemplate contemplated or the ones that might be increased are costing the average american household $1,000 a year. with the tariffs we re going to impose on chinese goods starting september 1 and later on in december at the middle of the christmas shopping season, that s going to cost the american consumers even more. so, both sides need to reach a deal. but for the president to be so shocked and surprised and