Here in san francisco. The manufacturing. The logistics. We work with Tech Companies and hardware startups. This is in exciting space to be. Back in 2000, you are mr. China. Are you mr. China. For anyone who has been in china, you know very quickly that you know very little about china. I know as little about china today as i did when i went the first day. It is such a big space and so complex. We had fantastic people on the ground who were able to execute. That is what we do. Does it matter if you are mr. China anymore . What has happened over the past decade is that you used to go to china and build one million things. A million routers ipads. Now you can just told one thing. What is happening that is allowing this to change . I dont think it is a geographic thing. I think we track data of our products that moved from production lines right through to the consumers home. We try to replace inventory with data. It is not necessary about making one million things, we just want to make w
We talked earlier about transparency. He had conducted a 16 month secret investigation that people didnt learn about until three or four months ago. Being a cuban, i dont know why the president thinks that by talking to rile castro that they can determine the future of cuba. The future of cuba it belongs the future of cuba belongs to the cuban people. The president announced a policy that is full of misunderstanding and missed conceptions. He read something from the teleprompter that are nonsense, i am sorry to say. When people say that the president wants to reestablish relations with cuba, the United States has had diplomatic relations with cuba since 1977. The American Mission in cuba is the largest islamic omatic nation in cuba and it has been for many years. There are more american diplomats in cuba than canadians or any other. I also said that the notion of saying, is something hasnt worked, we have to do Something Else. The Something Else has to work. Just because something does
Think is very interesting study, john f. Kennedy and the missile gap also in 2004. And finally we have Michael Cohen who is a fellow at the century foundation. He has been a columnist at the guardian. A blogger for the new york daily news. Hes the author of life on the campaign trail which is about notable 20th Century Campaign speeches of consequence and he is also published widely in wall street journal, new york times, l. A. Times, politico, et cetera. So john, over to you, sir. Good. Im supposed to speak here. You can all hear me. I thought the subject of this panel and of this conference had something to do with realism so im going to playoff that theme and ill get around to pl ticks at the very end. Theres a narrow version of realism. Im not talking about the academic theory of realism or the diplomatic theory that resinate with Public Opinion. Thats the idea that america should only deal with threats that directly concern us but in places like syria, the middle east and ukraine
Its in some ways the most ambitious project that existed to try to remake, you know, National Identities into something larger. You know, sort of european identity of the notion that theres not just greeks or italians or spaniards but this european identity. If you take a look at the most parliamentary elections you discovered the exact opposite occurred. Essentially you have actors on the far left and far right. Both of which are within europes boards and outside of europes boarders doing relatively well. And, in fact, the only place where that didnt happen is germany and thats because germanys mildly insane policies that they instituted across the rest of the euro zone served them well and no one else well. So i think unfortunately youre still operating in a world where National Identities or sub National Identities trump any sense of cosmopolitanism. Just quickly. Just from a political perspective, the American People are in a particular place right now, very skeptical as foreign in
War is. Now at 100 seconds to midnight. Its a close its ever been. It was there in 2020. And the bulletin of atomic scientists doesnt change the clock until january every year. It has not had a chance to do so. But if the current continues to ratchet, as it is now doing in ukraine, i think that it may indeed move a little bit closer. And of course, with every advance of the Ukrainian Army into those four territories that the have annexed claim to have annexed in eastern ukraine, the rhetoric from Vladimir Putin becomes strident and alarming. And even last night, President Biden said that we are now to armageddon since we are now closer to armageddon than any time since cuban missile crisis, 60 years ago. And we are now approaching that 60th anniversary of the cuban crisis. If that wasnt enough, we also have the episodes in northeast asia where the north koreans Ballistic Missiles over japan with the United States and south koreans conducting military exercises. Its a dangerous dangerou