"I have long argued that, if China and……" — Thomas P.M. Barnett
"I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary."
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16 Quotes by Thomas P.M. Barnett
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Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
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Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not…
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If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about…
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Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.
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Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.
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An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended…
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The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid…
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The fracking revolution kicks off two additional mini-revolutions in energy: the accelerated shift to natural gas-powered vehicles, reducing the oil…
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The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and…
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We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se…
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Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.
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Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly…
— David Attenborough
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
— Amy Adams
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
— Christiaan Barnard
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
— Martha Beck
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these…
— Harry Belafonte
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
— Steven Biko
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Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.…
— Art Blakey
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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