{"id":5770,"date":"2021-06-08T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=5770"},"modified":"2021-06-08T01:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T01:00:39","slug":"exercise-of-power-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=5770","title":{"rendered":"Exercise of Power, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World<\/em>, by Robert M. Gates (1943<\/a>-), published on June 16, 2020. Amazon has 562 ratings<\/a>, at this writing.<\/p>\n

Gates was recruited by CIA in 1966 (LBJ era) and then worked on the staff of the National Security Council in 1974. He returned to CIA in 1979 and became its director in 1991, under President Bush #41. Secretary of Defense in 2006 under Presidents Bush #43 and Obama. In between or after governmental jobs, he lectured, and served as President of Texas A&M in 2002 and Chancellor of William & Mary. His PhD in Russian and Soviet history was from Georgetown University in 1974.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A side point: it seems quite few high ranking officials were majored in Russian related fields. Condi Rice is another one. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In the backflip of the book, it reads that he served eight presidents\u00a0of both political parties<\/em>. This book is his candid take on the leaders around the world, mostly on his own government.<\/p>\n

Presidents Nixon and Reagan were the only two went into White House with a clear foreign policy. Others were led by events.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang, Teheran.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two of the stories he told about Putin were amusing: 2007 Munich, during which time Putin let out an hour long diatribe against US. After he stepped down from the podium, Putin “walked directly to me, smiled, extended his hand, and invited me to visit Russia.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“At Obama’s first meeting with then prime minister Putin in July 2009, the president let off by saying he understood Putin had some grievances. Fifty-five minutes later, Putin wrapped up his soliloquy.” Actually this\u00a0story was told by Obama himself in his latest book, A Promised Land<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Funny, SCMP reported, that after delaying, the 2020 census result has produced. China is the most populous country with 1,412 billion people. Census in China is a closely guarded state secretes<\/em>\u00a0and only recently, did it take a census every decade. The past census were 1953, 1964, 1982, 1990, 2000 and 2010.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why would a census be a state secretes is a myth so when I read one of Gates assessments on China was aging population; lowest birth rate since 1961 and gender imbalance due to one-child policy (female infanticide), I just laughed, ops, he wrote about a state secrete. \u00a0<\/p>\n

North Korea had severe famine 1994-2000, so in 1995 NK ask WFP<\/a>\u00a0for food aid. As it turned out, US donated substantially 1997-2000, more than China did; in 1999, it donated more than the rest of the world combined and three times China’s offering. And never said a word about it. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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