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In the summer of 1980, Antony Blinken, then 18 and about to matriculate at Harvard, interned for the U.S. senator who brought to Congress the most mental bandwidth since Rep. James Madison. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., an empiricist in an arena â government â that often is inhospitable to such, said this: The social sciences do not tell us what to do, they tell us the consequences of what we are doing. It is in that empirical spirit that Secretary of State Blinken surveys a globe that has no time zone without a test for U.S. policy.
The most challenging, China, has by its behavior â repression ashore, aggression in the South China Sea â refuted what Blinken calls a âWashington consensusâ to which he says he once subscribed but no longer does. It was that China, woven into global commerce in a way the primitive Soviet Union never was, would, like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, be constrained, and perhaps liberalized, by a thousand threads of c
WASHINGTON â In the summer of 1980, Antony Blinken, then 18 and about to matriculate at Harvard, interned for the U.S. senator who brought to Congress the most mental bandwidth since Rep. James Madison. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., an empiricist in an arena â government â that often is inhospitable to such, said this: The social sciences do not tell us what to do, they tell us the consequences of what we are doing. It is in that empirical spirit that Secretary of State Blinken surveys a globe that has no time zone without a test for U.S. policy.
The most challenging, China, has by its behavior â repression ashore, aggression in the South China Sea â refuted what Blinken calls a âWashington consensusâ to which he says he once subscribed but no longer does. It was that China, woven into global commerce in a way the primitive Soviet Union never was, would, like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, be constrained, and perhaps liberalized, by a tho
George F. Will
WASHINGTON â In the summer of 1980, Antony Blinken, then 18 and about to matriculate at Harvard, interned for the U.S. senator who brought to Congress the most mental bandwidth since Rep. James Madison.
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., an empiricist in an arena â government â that often is inhospitable to such, said this: The social sciences do not tell us what to do, they tell us the consequences of what we are doing.
It is in that empirical spirit that Secretary of State Blinken surveys a globe that has no time zone without a test for U.S. policy.