{"id":13224,"date":"2020-11-25T12:58:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T11:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=13224"},"modified":"2020-11-25T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T11:58:32","slug":"equal-measures-of-humility-and-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=13224","title":{"rendered":"Equal measures of humility and confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/blinken-seeks-cooperation-humility-as-top-us-diplomat-01606242907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Agence France Presse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>US Secretary of State-designate Antony Blinken vowed Tuesday to pursue cooperation around the world, saying that the United States cannot solve global problems on its own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;We have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence,&#8220; Blinken said after President-elect Joe Biden presented him and the rest of his national security team.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>&#8222;As the president-elect said, we can&#8217;t solve all of the world&#8217;s problems alone. We need to be working with other countries, we need their cooperation. We need their partnership,&#8220; Blinken said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8222;We can&#8217;t solve all of the world&#8217;s problems alone&#8220; was reported by CNN, Reuters, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Deutsche Welle<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Bangkok Post<\/span>, and on and on. Can Blinken, can the average American imagine how this statement sounds to a world which has watched four years of the US failing to deal with Trump and this past year of the US failing to manage the Covid pandemic? <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Die Zeit<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Frankfurter Allgemeine<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/span> all regularly carry stories on poverty, hunger, homelessness, lack of health insurance in the US. &#8222;We can&#8217;t solve all of the world&#8217;s problems alone&#8220;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agence France Presse: US Secretary of State-designate Antony Blinken vowed Tuesday to pursue cooperation around the world, saying that the United States cannot solve global problems on its own. &#8222;We have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence,&#8220; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=13224\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}