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ominate the country's political life. Regarding the widespread upheaval in Syria, the Saudis will work to ensure that any potential transition to a post-Assad era is as peaceful and as free of Iranian meddling as possible. Regarding Israel, Riyadh is adamant that a just settlement, based on King Abdullah'
a bloc of democratic states for an ideological crusade," the United States would do better, Kissinger suggests, to work with China to build a new "Pacific Community." Four decades ago, Richard Nixon grasped sooner than most the huge potential of China. "Well," he mused, "you can just stop and think of what cou
dominate the country's political life. Regarding the widespread upheaval in Syria, the Saudis will work to ensure that any potential transition to a post-Assad era is as peaceful and as free of Iranian meddling as possible. Regarding Israel, Riyadh is adamant that a just settlement, based on King Abdullah's
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031846 →ng a bloc of democratic states for an ideological crusade," the United States would do better, Kissinger suggests, to work with China to build a new "Pacific Community." Four decades ago, Richard Nixon grasped sooner than most the huge potential of China. "Well," he mused, "you can just stop and think of what could
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031854 →ng, Erdogan and his foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, who have long harboured regional leadership ambitions, seem to be positioning themselves for a post-Assad future. In this push towards the Syrian endgame they plainly have the enthusiastic backing of the US, for whom they are effectively acting as a local
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031953 →e the US must define its long-term global strategy. Must the US, as Henry Kissinger suggests in his latest book On China, consider the prospect of a "Pacific Community" that, unlike the Cold War-era Atlantic Community, is not based on common culture and values in the face of a direct threat, but on common interests
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031963 →Entities connected to both post-Assad and Pacific Community

Tunisia
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Bashar al-Assad
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Barack Obama
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Damascus
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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United States
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Hillary Clinton
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Bill Clinton
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Bahrain
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Ehud Barak
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Morocco
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Tehran
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Ankara
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Hosni Mubarak
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David Ben-Gurion
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Fatah
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Jerusalem
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