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There’s a dangerous leadership vacuum in the global system: David Miliband
Former British foreign secretary and now humanitarian aid champion, on Trump, Ukraine and Europe.
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Mr David Miliband is president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, the humanitarian body founded by Albert Einstein, and a former British foreign secretary.
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For those of us who live far from Washington, the churn in view as the Trump administration sets about fulfilling what it believes to be part of its mandate – to make steep cuts to government spending and drain the bureaucratic swamp as it were – is a distant curiosity.
Voice of America being shut down? Well, all right, but then how many of us in Singapore get our news from that portal, anyway. The Pentagon trimming its civilian workforce by 5 per cent to 8 per cent? Perhaps, its bureaucracy was indeed bloated, and needed cuts.
