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"The Trump administration has a very good ambassador [to China], David Perdue," said Nicholas Burns of his successor. "I spoke to him at great lengths. I supported him. I think he's going to do a really good job. We need that."

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A dark scenario on AI is not inevitable, said Anja Manuel. She described two possible scenarios: 1) A 9/11 of AI: Non-state actors abuse the technology in ways that harm us 2) A Chernobyl of AI: The tech itself does something harmful We can prevent this, says Manuel. AI

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Happening now, Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, Dr. Mark T. Esper, and Jake Sullivan join @scclemons at the #AspenSecurity Forum for a conversation on 'The Long View From Aspen.' Watch today’s livestream here: tinyurl.com/4vusa5zc

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.Condoleezza Rice: "There was some carnage in large parts of the country" in response to globalization and the post-war economic order. She highlights the threat of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: populism, nativism, isolationism, and protectionism.

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.@condoleezzarice reminds us: "Great powers don’t mind their own business." "How can we recreate in the American people the sense that the United States is better when it is engaged in the world?"

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"Americans have always hated war," Robert Gates says. "We are not an isolationist country, but we are a country that wants to be left alone."

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Asked by Steve Clemons about Americans' view of "forever conflicts," Secretary Gates says, "The conflicts did go on, and there didn't seem to be any resolution."

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.Jake Sullivan: Trump took a good step in responding to Chinese export controls on rare earths, but we need to do a lot more. On re-shoring industry, Sullivan says the Trump administration is "confronting the same challenges that we did."

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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Defense Secretaries Robert Gates & Mark Esper, and former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan discuss National Security Aspen Security Forum #AspenSecurity – LIVE on C-SPAN2 c-span.org/event/public-a…

Former Secretary of State <a href="/CondoleezzaRice/">Condoleezza Rice</a>, former Defense Secretaries Robert Gates &amp; Mark Esper, and former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan discuss National Security <a href="/AspenSecurity/">Aspen Security Forum</a> #AspenSecurity – LIVE on C-SPAN2 c-span.org/event/public-a…
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.Dr. Mark T. Esper says the U.S. long did not grasp what it means to conduct a long war in an era of great-power competition. He argues we must build the industrial base and that there is still not a sufficient sense of urgency in the Executive Branch and in Congress.

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"One of the accomplishments of the first Trump administration, certainly from the DoD [perspective], was the recognition through our national defense strategy...that the era of counterterrorism was behind us," says Dr. Mark T. Esper. "We should start stacking munitions in preparation

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.Condoleezza Rice: "It's insulting to talk about the real Marco Rubio. He is a competent believer in American power and its exercise." The State Department is "badly in need of reform," she goes on. #AspenSecurity

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.Jake Sullivan on firings at the State Department: "These are public servants who have given their lives to this country and they are being mistreated." Condoleezza Rice: I spent my life treating them with respect…The Foreign Service is the best and the brightest. Secretary

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“I worry about our human potential...We are not held together by nationality or religion or ethnicity, we are held together by a creed: It doesn’t matter where you came from, it matters where you are going…If too many Americans are not included in that creed, we won’t play a

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In closing the #AspenSecurity Forum, Anja Manuel invokes Joe Nye: We come together not just to talk, but to disagree and to check our own assumptions, to listen to one another.

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Aspen Security Forum Marc Rod “We have to step back a little bit and recognize that Israel’s strategic calculation is very, very different from before Oct. 7, and that’s a big deal for the region,” the former director of the CIA and head of U.S. Central Command said. #AspenSecurity jewishinsider.com/2025/07/david-…

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Let me be clear: #Ukraine is not here to ask for charity. We’re looking for real partnership—deeper 🇺🇸🇺🇦 ties between our defense industries, especially in the private sector. This is part of my speech at the Aspen Security Forum