Category: Content Series

Is China a Superpower?

By Frederick Kempe

Victor Chu, the chairman of First Eastern, reminded a small Atlantic Council dinner that Napoleon once said of China, “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” So the wide awake China is busily agitating friends and competitors, but is it a superpower? Without quoting individuals (this was an off-record setting), […]

Global Watercooler: Death in Pakistan

By Frederick Kempe

Around the watercooler today: Extremism strikes again in Pakistan; Gates shoots down no fly zone; and Gorbachev cautions Putin.

Global Watercooler: Capture and Try Qadhafi?

By Frederick Kempe

Around the watercooler today: Senator McCain calls for no fly zone over Libya; the US may be embracing the Responsibility to Protect; and tensions rise in the Ivory Coast.

General Jean-Louis Georgelin: France in NATO

French Chief of Defense General Jean-Louis Georgelin joined the Atlantic Council for a discussion on France’s normalization of relations with NATO.  It was the first major speech in the U.S. by a senior French official on NATO since France’s reintegration into the alliance’s integrated military command.

Big 3 Bailout: View From Europe

By James Joyner

News that Senate Republicans killed the bailout of the Big 3 U.S. auto companies has set stocks tumbling around the world. In the major European papers available in English, we’re seeing headlines like “World markets slump as US car industry bail-out fails” (Guardian), “US car industry set to collapse as bailout fails” (Times of London)