Quotes for All
When we remember presidents who didn’t fulfill their promises – for instance George H.W. Bush saying no new taxes or Barack Obama saying he would close the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay – we remember those because they’re the exceptions, not the rule. Evan Osnos
Donald Trump is an American presidential nominee who was describing Russia in terms that they haven’t heard almost ever. And so there is a belief that Donald Trump would be a collaborative, willing and I think perhaps quite able partner. Evan Osnos
Chinese leaders are saying amongst themselves, according to the Chinese analysts who follow them most closely, that they believe Donald Trump is in the end making hollow threats, and they think that he would be easy to handle, is how one of them put it. Evan Osnos
Often Americans have heard Donald Trump be very hard on China. But that’s not how it’s heard over there. In China, his message is being interpreted as the sound of an exhausted America, an America that is seeking to withdraw from its commitments to NATO, to holding up, for instance, human rights around the world. … Read more
Donald Trump has the ability to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal as he says, but if he were to do so, this would be regarded in Tehran as an abrogation of the deal. This would allow the Iranian side of the deal to in effect withdraw because they could say that the United States has … Read more
Actually the idea of having Mexico pay for the wall on the southern border is a nonstarter. That seems to be generally pretty much recognized on both sides of the border. What you find, though, is that logistically it’s not impossible. Evan Osnos
If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned on. In the 20th century, presidents between Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter accomplished 73 percent of the things that they said they would do as candidates. Part of that is because once they … Read more
Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation… Vivid, literate, and brimming with insights, Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic. Evan Osnos