{"id":581625,"date":"2010-05-27T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85888"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:23:08","slug":"clinton-who%e2%80%99s-afraid-of-a-multipolar-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581625","title":{"rendered":"Clinton: Who\u2019s Afraid of a Multipolar World?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, the National Security Strategy issued by George W. Bush expressly precluded the United States from allowing a new superpower to develop. Speaking today at the Brookings Institution to officially unveil President Obama&#8217;s National Security Strategy, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dismissed the idea that the U.S. had anything to fear from a &#8220;multipolar&#8221; world of new great powers like China or India.<span id=\"more-85888\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Smirking a bit, Clinton, just back from a trip to Southeast Asia, acknowledged that &#8220;some&#8221; believe that a multipolar world &#8220;undercuts American power and leadership.&#8221; But she said that was simplistic. &#8220;We&#8217;re seeking to gain partners in pursuing American interests, and we happen to think those interests coincide with universal&#8221; aspirations, Clinton said. The alternative approach of demanding foreign nations cooperate with the U.S. is a nonstarter.\u00a0&#8221;We can&#8217;t begin a conversation with someone by saying, &#8216;Here are the ten things you need to do to be a responsible stakeholder,&#8217;&#8221; Clinton said when challenged by a former U.S. ambassador, Martin Indyk, on how to persuade sometimes recalcitrant nations that U.S. interests overlap with their own interests.<\/p>\n<p>Several days&#8217; worth of far-ranging dialogue with the Chinese government on energy security and China&#8217;s development role in Africa, Asia and Latin America, she said, contributed to her endorsement of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/85797\/the-key-focus-of-obamas-security-strategy-what-sustains-american-power\">the National Security Strategy&#8217;s rules-based internationalism<\/a>. &#8220;The sum of the parts add up to a strong endorsement of American leadership,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, the National Security Strategy issued by George W. Bush expressly precluded the United States from allowing a new superpower to develop. Speaking today at the Brookings Institution to officially unveil President Obama&#8217;s National Security Strategy, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dismissed the idea that the U.S. had anything to fear from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}