Summit Meetings: are they productive?
Summit Meetings: are they productive?
Where are you living at? What is your country? I don’t mean
to be rude, either you belong to one industrial country or developing country;
have you ever questioned yourself how good your president? To international
content, how good his image building in front of other leaders? How does he do
it? Or, let me put it simply, have you thought that your president might be wasting
more energy serving the international image than he is on his country, by mean
for his people/ constituents?
For international study, it is right to believe that it is
necessary to build a strong connection with international realm/ politics, as
important as serving his people. However, the question is, is it easy to
maintain both respectively balance?
I believe it is not. Only a half-god-man would be possible.
Think about this, if I were the president of United States;
how many meetings will i have to attend in order ensure my foreign policy/ my people policy.
Put it, I have to attend the Nato Summits, I have to gather with other world
leaders in Camp David, and I will have to attend a G-8 Summit, within a week. A
month ago, I attended the Rio de Janeiro Summit and talk about the issue of
environment. Meanwhile, I also had to say a word with various world critical
issues such as North Korea’s missile launch. I had to be involved in six party
talks, and the rest summits. Those are the summits that publicly known through media.
But, is there no chance that there was no “secret summits”? of course there’s
some secret summits, the numbers could be larger than any summits we’ve known
so far.
I know one
of you would argue that “That a president must do”. Well, I have another
opinion. Who’s money pays those long journeys? Have you ever wondered if those
talks/ summits really represent our “people” (I mean opinion)? Is there any
direct influence that makes us thing our voice is heard internationally? We
actually didn’t know it, did we? Or did you?
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