Gary Locke Quotes
I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.
Locke, Gary. Interview by Charlie Rose. Charlie Rose, PBS, 2012.
This was the first time a Cabinet Member had ever addressed Congress. He had just concluded an alliance with Soviet Russia for fighting Hitler and Japan in the Second World War. Some were uneasy about an alliance with the Communist state. However, the Congress approved overwhelmingly.
During her adult life, she was the de facto ruler of China. This quotation is very important because it gives us an important insight into Chinese motives and historical drivers. The first reason is something almost all countries and cultures can identify with, but the second--to avoid being looked down—was just as important. Americans are relatively uncaring what the citizens of other countries think about them, but the Chinese do. So do other nationalities and cultures like the Arabs, the Iranians, many of the South American cultures. Often it takes on a different world like “dignity” or “respect”.
What he does not consider is that a large number of Americans don’t want their government having grand strategies if there is no threat to the United States or no critical national interest. For them crises and threats are all that should occupy our foreign affairs.
Gary Faye Locke is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 10th United States ambassador to China (2011–2014). He was previously the 21st governor of Washington (1997–2005) and served in the Obama administration as United States Secretary of Commerce (2009–2011). Locke is the first governor in the continental United States of East Asian descent and the only Chinese American ever to have served as a governor of any state. He was also the first Chinese American to serve as the U.S. ambassador to China.
