The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Robert Hormats reads as The Diplomat through a career-long commitment to durable, cross-border trust networks over transactional wins. Spanning Goldman Sachs vice chairman and Under Secretary of State in the Obama administration, his method mirrors the Kissinger strategic connectivity he reveres: the phone call that works in a crisis exists only because the relationship was built decades earlier.
“You know, when I was in government, I really did not have a very deep knowledge of financial markets in New York. I had a number of friends with whom I'd gone to school or developed over a period of time who were working in the New York financial institutions and were working for corporations too, because obviously they play a very big ro…”
“I really didn't envisage the kind of rapid development that would occur in China in the course of really three or four decades. I knew it was consequential, and I actually knew something about the Chinese economy because living in Africa, there were a number of Chinese who were studying at the University of College in Dar es Salaam, Tanza…”
“Well, it's certainly true that China is building in two ways. One, if you look at the infrastructure within China, it's remarkable. These fast trains and modern harbors and modern airports, I mean, and the telecommunication system is remarkable. They're rushing, moving ahead toward 5G and 6G. We've got to be doing that too.”
“Takes a long-term view of virtually anything and everything. They're not necessarily, in most cases, short-term players. They have a medium or a long-term view. So I hesitate to jump to any conclusions along the lines of whether it's going to be a year from now an attractive place to invest or two years from now. I don't know.”
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