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...that, even donors admit, has had little impact on those who need it most. Three-quarters of Laos' population lives in poverty, half do not have access to electricity or clean water, and one in 10 children die before the age of five. According to one former senior western diplomat assigned to the capital: "The country is broken...
...arrangement like it has with Israel, which has sold $35 million in arms to China since 2000. It clears purchases that might disturb the U.S. in advance. That degree of subservience won't fly in Paris or Berlin - nor end China's human-rights abuses. Sighs a British diplomat: "This mess isn't going away...
George F. Kennan, U.S. diplomat and Harvard University Fellow from 1965 to 1969, died last Thursday at his Princeton home...
...added, “No other political diplomat had the same impact on American foreign policy, but at the same time he was one of the great international historians of the period...
While May recalled Kennan’s remarkable ability as a negotiator and historian, combining the often mutually-exclusive spheres of political influence and academic renown, Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60, offered a remembrance of the diplomat as a public speaker...