Nicholas Burns
@RNicholasBurns
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Harvard Professor. Former U.S. Ambassador to China and career Foreign Service Officer. Husband, father and grandfather.
Joined November 2012
Great points from @Greg_CAllen on @CNBC. The idea — pushed by Nvidia — that we can get China “addicted” to our chips has no basis in reality. Beijing’s drive for tech self-reliance is real, well-documented, and completely incompatible with that thesis. Worth a watch. 👇
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CNBC’s “Money Movers” team discusses China vs. the U.S. in the AI race with Gregory Allen, senior adviser with the Wadhwani AI Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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The Trump Administration’s strategy gets wrong all we know to be true about Europe—indispensable trade partner, investor in our economy, home to our most important military alliance—NATO, critical partner in deterring Russia and China.
As clear as it gets: a coherent US vision to tear Europe apart
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The Trump Administration’s strategy gets wrong all we know to be true about Europe—indispensable trade partner, investor in our economy, home to our most important military alliance—NATO, critical partner in deterring Russia and China.
As clear as it gets: a coherent US vision to tear Europe apart
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The U.S. was a faithful WWII ally to China 80 years ago before the Communist takeover. We must now stand with our ally Japan against Beijing’s unreasonable belligerence. https://t.co/rdKhOFT7KP via @NYTimes
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A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies.
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The U.S. was a faithful WWII ally to China 80 years ago before the Communist takeover. We must now stand with our ally Japan against Beijing’s unreasonable belligerence. https://t.co/rdKhOFT7KP via @NYTimes
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A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared history as wartime allies.
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Full support for @TimShriver.
The post suggests the president used the R-word to mock Gov. Walz. If that’s true, this word has a long, painful and humiliating history, and it reinforces unfair and wrong stereotypes that people with intellectual disabilities are incompetent or worse. Our @SpecialOlympics
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President Trump must stand by Prime Minister Takaichi and reject China’s cynical ploy to divide us from Japan—our most important ally in the Indo-Pacific. https://t.co/LXB8J3Yzri via @NYTimes
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With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone to try to pry the U.S.-Japan alliance apart.
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Nicholas Burns ’78, Harvard professor and former U.S. ambassador to China, spoke at the Winston Center's fall Clough Colloquium. @RNicholasBurns told a packed audience that technology is at the center of the competition between the US and China https://t.co/ZldBwn4tdG
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President Trump must stand by Prime Minister Takaichi and reject China’s cynical ploy to divide us from Japan—our most important ally in the Indo-Pacific. https://t.co/LXB8J3Yzri via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone to try to pry the U.S.-Japan alliance apart.
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it's shattering and heartbreaking and written with poetic restrraint - one of the greatest of essays
This is an important, beautifully written and courageous essay by Tatiana Schlossberg A Battle with My Blood | The New Yorker
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This is an important, beautifully written and courageous essay by Tatiana Schlossberg A Battle with My Blood | The New Yorker
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When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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Important thread
I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are. Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:
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Check out the latest edition of our Weekly Leaf, featuring ASG Co-Chairs @CondoleezzaRice and @RNicholasBurns and ASG Members @MarkTEsper, @DrMichaelJGreen, and @SlaughterAM. The book of the week is "The State and the Soldier" by @KoriSchake.
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This week, the U.S. proposed a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine; Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced Saudi Arabia will increase its investment commitments in the U.S. to almost $1 trillion...
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Proud to have been at the signing of the Dayton Accords 30 years ago today that brought peace to Bosnia. In Dayton last week, I saluted the brilliant work of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke who made it happen.
How the Bosnian war ended - on 21 November 1995, the Dayton Peace accords were signed. 🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there
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The United States of America is not united by ethnicity, nationality, or religion. We are united by a creed—a belief that it doesn’t matter where you came from, it matters where you are going. A core element of the American Dream is that you can come from humble circumstances and
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The American Dream belongs to every schoolchild.
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China should free Ekpar Asat, imprisoned unjustly for a decade. The charges against him were false. He did not receive a fair trial. All because he is a Uygher.
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Commemorating today the 30th anniversary of the Dayton Accords that ended the Bosnia War and brought peace to its people—at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
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A magnificent tribute to the great American diplomat, the late Richard Holbrooke by the city of Dayton, Ohio. He forged the peace agreement that ended the Bosnian War 30 years ago this week.
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A magnificent tribute to the great American diplomat, the late Richard Holbrooke by the city of Dayton, Ohio. He forged the peace agreement that ended the Bosnian War 30 years ago this week.
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The Dayton Accords that ended the Bosnian War would not have been reached without the support of Europe and the three leaders you mention, Eric. It was a transatlantic effort in all respects. I praised the European role in my remarks in Dayton this weekend.
@RNicholasBurns Where are Jacques Blot, Carl Bildt, Pauline Neville Jones? (The agreement was signed ceremonially in Paris on 14 December 1995)
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