By all accounts, a great first week
Secretary Clinton has been on the job for a week now, and I think it’s fair to say she’s doing a fantastic job. Special envoys have been named for South Asia, the Middle East, and climate change, and George Mitchell, the Middle East envoy, is already on a listening tour in the region. She’s put ...
Secretary Clinton has been on the job for a week now, and I think it's fair to say she's doing a fantastic job. Special envoys have been named for South Asia, the Middle East, and climate change, and George Mitchell, the Middle East envoy, is already on a listening tour in the region. She's put in calls to more than three dozen leaders as part of an effort to reassure the world that the U.S. is committed to repairing damaged relations. She's made impressive development announcements, with an initial State Department commitment of $125 million this year to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and a pledge on behalf of the administration to work with other countries to halve global hunger and poverty by 2015. And she's made it clear that she'd like to take the lead on U.S.-China relations, endorsing a "comprehensive" approach to the country (and reassuring the Chinese that she means the relationship should about more than just the value of the yuan).
Secretary Clinton has been on the job for a week now, and I think it’s fair to say she’s doing a fantastic job. Special envoys have been named for South Asia, the Middle East, and climate change, and George Mitchell, the Middle East envoy, is already on a listening tour in the region. She’s put in calls to more than three dozen leaders as part of an effort to reassure the world that the U.S. is committed to repairing damaged relations. She’s made impressive development announcements, with an initial State Department commitment of $125 million this year to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and a pledge on behalf of the administration to work with other countries to halve global hunger and poverty by 2015. And she’s made it clear that she’d like to take the lead on U.S.-China relations, endorsing a "comprehensive" approach to the country (and reassuring the Chinese that she means the relationship should about more than just the value of the yuan).
That’s a great start, and it’s clear that Hillary Clinton’s State Department – in both style and substance – bears little resemblence to the one under Condoleezza Rice.
So, here’s my question to you, readers: What would you like to see Secretary Clinton address soon that hasn’t made it onto the Week One Agenda?
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