Thursday, February 12, 2009

Pesek: Clinton will pull Rubin stunt on visit to China

[ An odd headline for what is actually a good article. ]

Clinton wants to pull a Robert Rubin on his old department. When Rubin was Bill Clinton’s Treasury secretary, he co-opted many of the state department’s traditional functions. With Asia, Mexico and Russia in crisis during his tenure, Rubin fused economic policy with diplomacy in unprecedented ways. [....]
The last thing the US needs is a trade war with its main creditor. That doesn’t mean Clinton’s visit to China will avoid hard feelings. Not with US diplomacy and economics becoming one.

From a long excellent article by William Pesek at businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6046:clinton-will-pull-rubin-stunt-on-visit-to-china&catid=28:opinion&Itemid=64

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