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...Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, said the “greatest risk of a direct US-China military confrontation today is at Second Thomas Shoal”....
...He joins a team of other operating advisers including former Boeing chief executive Jim McNerney and former Marsh McLennan leader Dan Glaser as well as Sir Terry Leahy, who also ran Tesco from 1997 to 2011...
...be a reminder about how much corruption exists in the system,” Glaser said of the probe....
...So that’s an obvious example of an impact on US-China relations,” said Glaser. “Wang Yi can only do the job of two people for so long.”...
...“They don’t have the incentive to make this visit happen quickly. In that sense, for the Chinese, the downsides of waiting are not great.”...
...One person familiar with the diplomatic discussions said: “One of the big problems is that Taiwan doesn’t want the name change and Lithuania has a very strong faction of people who don’t want the name changed...
...He may calculate that it is safer to only have interactions in this period at lower levels,” Glaser said. “But there is also the Covid factor, and we don’t know how much weight to attach to that.”...
...We don’t have any of those. People are aiming now to just get to 30 per cent — maybe.”...
...“I don’t mean at all to be alarmist . . . it’s just that we can’t wish that away.”...
...“I don’t think anyone wants to do something that could be seen as a weakening of support,” said Bartholomew....
...Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, said Beijing had signalled that it did not want relations to worsen....
...“They want to draw a line in the sand so they don’t see a continuation of a trend that is strategically unfavourable to them,” Bianchi said....
...“That sounds like a new position, and has operational implications,” Glaser said....
...“Paraguay is in play, the Chinese are trying to poach it,” said Bonnie Glaser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think-tank....
...“If you don’t manage a whole lot you may decide that you won’t manage plan assets any longer,” she said....
...Neuroscientist Dr Daniel Glaser, of the Royal Institution, agrees....
...which don’t require lethal force but deserve a better response than just “pounding the table issuing press releases”....
...We said, ‘We don’t want to be subject to behaving in a really short-term way.’”...
...“I don’t think that we should expect that China is going to emerge as the great leader of the multilateral order,” she said. “Xi Jinping is very much on the defensive....
...A leading food industry chief executive added: “Things that used to look shocking just don’t shock as much now.”...
...” said Bonnie Glaser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think-tank....
...“I don’t think any agreement will resolve the underlying problem,” said Wang Wen, executive dean of the Chongyang Institute, a think-tank under Renmin University....
...“I normally don’t store anything,” he says. Mr Glaser agrees with Mr Trump’s position on trade. “But I don’t want to go broke while he’s getting it done,” he says....
...Marsh boss Dan Glaser can now watch from the sidelines as his rivals work out how to respond. Credit default swaps get a spring clean GSO....
...So I don’t like that. I don’t like that. I don’t like it from the standpoint of China.”...
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