The following keynote speech was delivered on February 11, 2016, at the Security Talks at the Prince Carl Palace event in Munich, Germany. State Minister Huber, Ambassador Scharioth, Ambassador Ischinger, Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, Good evening, and thank you for the warm welcome and introduction. I am truly privileged to address the prestigious German Atlantic Association. Just last November, at the Asia-Europe Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Luxembourg, I quoted Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling’s well-known quip, that “East is East, West is West, and never the two shall meet.” Naturally, I pointed out the sea change over the past …read more
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