Nicholas Burns has served three US Presidents over 27 years as a diplomat, including as deputy secretary of state to George W. Bush. He also served as Bill Clinton’s ambassador to Greece and Bush’s ambassador to Nato, and now teaches at Harvard University. He sat down with FinanceAsia on the sidelines of the Credit Suisse annual Asian investor conference in Hong Kong to discuss the intersection of geopolitics and globalisation.
In Europe, Russia has forcibly annexed another country’s territory. In the South China Sea, the US has advised its commercial airlines to comply with China’s demands for flight notification. Is Pax Americana dead
The international system...