As a rule, the US secretary of state does not attend the funeral of the general secretary of a Communist party. Yet that is exactly what Washington’s top diplomat, Antony Blinken, had planned to do for the last rites of Nguyen Phu Trong, the longtime leader of Vietnam, who died in office on July 19, […]
Author Archives: Jorge Heine
Jorge Heine is interim director of the Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University. He was a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC (2018-19). He has served as Chile’s ambassador to China (2014-17), to India (2003-07) and to South Africa (1994-99), and as a cabinet minister in the Chilean government.
