| | | | | Dear friend,
Thank you for registering for the Founding Fuel Masterclass series on The World in 2025, scheduled for Friday, 31st January 2025, 6:30 pm and Friday, 7th February 2025, 6:30 pm. This newsletter is part of a series designed to help you prepare for the event, featuring insights about and from our panellists. | | | | | In 1992, when Philippe Le Corre, then an enterprising journalist for Radio France, wrote to King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia seeking an interview, the King wrote back, partly scrawled by hand, that he had not accepted an interview since 1955. The King’s staff, however, told Le Corre to anyway show up at a cabinet meeting, attended by representatives of the Khmer Rouge, Hun Sen and Son Sen. Just before the meeting began, Sihanouk declared, "and now I am going to answer questions from Radio France". He spoke in French for half an hour before switching to English for a few minutes only to abruptly announce, "enough talking now, let the meeting start".
Le Corre worked in Beijing, Taipei and Hong Kong as a foreign correspondent for a decade writing extensively on the region in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Politico, National Interest, Le Monde, Les Echos, Nikkei Asia, China Perspectives, Etudes, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs, among others.
He has worn many hats since—in government, consulting, think-tanks and academia. Between 2018 and 2023, he testified six times before the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Affairs, the French Senate and the French National Assembly on Chinese investment and influence in Europe.
He also served as a special assistant for international affairs and counsellor to the French defense minister, and as a senior policy adviser on Asia within the French Ministry of Defense’s directorate for international relations and strategy. | | | | | For nearly 10 years, Le Corre worked at two of Washington DC’s most prestigious think-tanks, first as a fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Program, then as a nonresident senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Asia and Europe programs. | | | | | | - Professor of Practice in Geopolitics and Asian Studies, ESSEC.
- Senior Research Fellow and Head, Asia Program - Institute for Research and Education in Negotiation (IRENE Paris, Singapore & Brussels)
- Senior Fellow, Asia Society Policy Institute / Center for China Analysis
| | | | | | | Anyone harbouring the long-term concern of preserving the European identity, has to look at things not as a follower of the United States. The United States may have saved Europe, certainly France, twice in the 20th century, but it’s now moving towards Asia. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previous editions
- Spotlight on Justin Logan, Director of Defence and Foreign Policy Studies at Cato Institute.
- Spotlight on Yao Yang, Director of China Center for Economic Research
Tomorrow
- Spotlight on Sundeep Waslekar, President, Strategic Foresight Group, and author of A World Without War
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