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GMF celebrates its 40 year history and Founder and Chairman, Dr. Guido Goldman at Gala Dinner May 09, 2013 / Washington, DCGMF held a celebratory gala dinner at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday May 8.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
China and Russia: Best Frenemies Forever?
March 28, 2013 / Minxin Pei
FORTUNE
This op-ed was originally published by Fortune Magazine. Click here to read the complete article.
FORTUNE -- Chinese leader Xi Jinping's choice of first overseas stop shortly after his inauguration as the new Communist Party chief and the president of the country has raised some eyebrows. Instead of visiting a major Western capital, he picked Moscow as his diplomatic launching pad.
In light of Xi's eagerness to present himself as a reformer in the mode of the late Deng Xiaoping, Moscow is an even more curious choice, since Deng's first foreign destination after gaining political dominance in December 1978 was Washington. It was clear that Deng knew his reform could not succeed without the help of the West, in particular the United States. But what is Xi thinking this time?
Apparently, Xi wants to send a message to the West: China has other important friends in the world and does not need the West as much as it used to.
Read the full article from FORTUNE here.
Minxin Pei is a non-resident senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States as well as the Tom and Margot Pritzker Professor of Government and director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College.
