Biden recalled conversation with Chinese Xi Jinping where the president was asked why he referred to America as ' Pacific power, reported Capital Gazette in 2015.. ..…

Weld says that “ripping up NAFTA” and leaving the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were huge mistakes. He thinks that the United States should rejoin TPP as a way to curtail Chinese power. ..…

The normal rationale for these arguments is that Chinese advantages in Western Pacific and Russian edge Eastern Europe are too great to be reversed in those areas, and United States can use its worldwide reach to inflict serious costs on China or Russia elsewhere. ... United States..…

Knowledge of Russian, Portuguese, Thai, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, Melanesian (Papua New Guinea) . He has taught as visiting professor in Western Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and Latin America: . ..…