Clinton practicing ‘distinctly American realism’
Over at FP‘s Shadow Government blog, Daniel Blumenthal writes that Secretary Clinton is practicing "what one might call a distinctly American realism." He states: The realism is manifest in the return to balancing China’s power in the region, something the president said he would avoid as anachronistic. The distinctly American approach is practicing balance of ...
Over at FP's Shadow Government blog, Daniel Blumenthal writes that Secretary Clinton is practicing "what one might call a distinctly American realism." He states:
Over at FP‘s Shadow Government blog, Daniel Blumenthal writes that Secretary Clinton is practicing "what one might call a distinctly American realism." He states:
The realism is manifest in the return to balancing China’s power in the region, something the president said he would avoid as anachronistic. The distinctly American approach is practicing balance of power politics without abandoning our principles. We want and need a better relationship with authoritarian Vietnam. But we need not ignore Hanoi’s poor human rights record.
Preeti Aroon was copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009. Twitter: @pjaroonFP
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