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The world leader Tom Donilon admires most? Yitzhak Rabin The world leader Tom Donilon admires most? Yitzhak Rabin The Biden insider reflected on his decades in government work during a recent Council on Foreign Relations event Carolyn Kaster/AP National Security Adviser Tom Donilon speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Thursday, May 17, 2012. By Share BlackRock Investment Institute Chairman Thomas Donilon, who served as national security advisor under Pr...

Presider Vice President, National Program and Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations FASKIANOS: Welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations State and Local Officials Webinar. Im Irina Faskianos, vice president for the National Program and Outreach here at CFR. Were delighted to have participants from fifty U.S. states and territories with us. We thank you for taking the time from your busy schedules to join this discussion, which is on the record. As you know, ...

Ahead of the annual IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, please join IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva for a discussion of the economic outlook in the post-pandemic world and the actions needed to drive the recovery. Please note that the meeting will begin with a prerecorded address by the IMF Managing Director, followed by live conversation.  The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the worlds foremost economic policymakers and scholars to address members on...

Backward Masking Biden-On the “Big Guy’s” watch, China’s influence will "grow and expand." Posted on “China has an overall goal, and I don’t criticize them for the goal, but they have an overall goal to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world. That’s not going to happen on my watch because the United States are going to continue to grow and expand.” That was Joe Biden in his March 25 press confer...

Thu Apr 8, 2021 “China has an overall goal, and I don’t criticize them for the goal, but they have an overall goal to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world, and the most powerful country in the world. That’s not going to happen on my watch because the United States are going to continue to grow and expand.” That was Joe Biden in his March 25 press conference. The squad of compliant reporters failed to ask about gains China had already m...

By Vince Ryan This year’s meeting of the Bilderberg Group* was held in the elegant Westfields Marriot Hotel in Chantilly, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C., May 31 – June 3. Participants included 100 influential American citizens, among them being Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and World Bank Group President Robert Zoellick. Others included Donald Graham, CEO of The Washington Post; Jessica Mathews, president Carnegie Endowment for International ...

The Dons Behind Biden Posted on “Biden Gets China,” headlined the January 2, 2012 report in The Atlantic. As author Steve Clemons explained, “Vice President Joe Biden will take the lead on the administrations next phase China policy.”  This marked a shift to a “strategy of engagement with Biden at the top,” that allows the US to deal with China’s likely next president from a Vice President to a Vice President/Next President status -- and to continue both the Departments of Sta...

Wed Jan 13, 2021 “Biden Gets China,” headlined the January 2, 2012 report in The Atlantic. As author Steve Clemons explained, “Vice President Joe Biden will take the lead on the administrations next phase China policy.”  This marked a shift to a “strategy of engagement with Biden at the top,” that allows the US to deal with China’s likely next president from a Vice President to a Vice President/Next President status -- and to continue both the Departments of State’s an...

Here are 9 fascinating facts to know about BlackRock, the worlds largest asset manager popping up in the Biden administration rungarino@businessinsider.com (Rebecca Ungarino) © AP BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink was reportedly under consideration by 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to run the Treasury Department. AP The worlds biggest fund manager, BlackRock, has become an increasingly influential player in Washington, DC.  The firms global head of sustainabl...

By Donald Jeffries BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with $6.3 trillion of individual investments under its control. It has been dubbed by some as “the new Goldman Sachs.” Since 2004, BlackRock has hired a large number of former government officials and powerful bankers, leading to obvious potential conflicts of interest. CEO Larry Fink has ties to both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Former BlackRock executive Craig Phillips, now a Treasury Department official, has been l...