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Asia Society’s new head on the Trump challenge and her latest mission
Former South Korean foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha shares her insights on managing relations with Uncle Sam in volatile times.
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Former South Korean foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha was announced in January as the next president and chief executive of New York-based Asia Society.
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How should the world, and Asia, prepare for a likely return of Donald Trump as president of the United States?
It is a question that has increasingly begun to tug at the consciousness of leaders as they watch the intensifying election drama in the US, where the gaffes and incoherence of the 81-year-old incumbent Joe Biden are the talk of the nation. That is making his 77-year-old putative challenger Trump, his mercurial ways notwithstanding, somehow seem more fit for the job than the experienced Mr Biden, who first entered the Senate in 1972.
