March 22, 2017

Why experts think Rex Tillerson skipping a NATO summit is "an unmitigated disaster"

Featuring: Ilan Goldenberg

Source: Vox

Journalist: Zack Beauchamp

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will skip an April meeting of NATO foreign ministers to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, giving a cold shoulder to many of Washington’s closest allies. Experts on Washington’s delicate diplomatic relationship with Europe had surprisingly undiplomatic reactions.

“Unprecedented,” Ivo Daalder, former US ambassador to NATO and current president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, said of Tillerson’s decision.

“US allies are alarmed and worried,” Jenny Mathers, a Russia expert at Aberystwyth University, told me.

Read the full article at Vox.

Author

  • Ilan Goldenberg

    Former Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Security Program

    Ilan Goldenberg is the former Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. He is a foreign policy and defense expe...