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This document is an excerpt, likely from an interview or book, featuring former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating's analysis of global leadership and geopolitics. Keating criticizes President Obama and Chancellor Merkel for a lack of decisive leadership while praising China's Deng Xiaoping. He also analyzes the decline of the US 'prosperity compact,' citing wage stagnation between 1990 and 2008 and the radicalization of the Republican party starting with Reagan.

People (15)

Name Role Context
Keating Subject/Interviewee
Paul Keating (former Australian PM), offering geopolitical analysis and criticism of current leaders.
Barack Obama US President
Criticized by Keating for acting as a mediator rather than a leader.
Angela Merkel German Chancellor
Criticized by Keating as a "worry-wart" who assesses rather than leads.
Deng Xiaoping Former Chinese Leader
Praised by Keating as the most influential 20th-century leader for the 21st century.
Mikhail Gorbachev Former Soviet Leader
Comparison point for Deng Xiaoping's ideological shifts.
Bill Clinton Former US President
Cited as part of the era that "cost US mightily."
George W. Bush Former US President
Cited as the zenith of political derailment and cost to the US.
Ronald Reagan Former US President
Cited as the beginning of the derailment of American conservatism.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Former US President
Cited as representing the abandoned middle ground.
Richard Nixon Former US President
Cited as representing the abandoned middle ground.
Bush Sr Former US President
Cited as representing the abandoned middle ground.
Roosevelt Historical Figure
Mentioned in comparison to Deng.
Churchill Historical Figure
Mentioned in comparison to Deng.
Stalin Historical Figure
Mentioned in comparison to Deng.
Mao Historical Figure
Mentioned in comparison to Deng.

Organizations (2)

Timeline (2 events)

1990-2008
Period of American productivity burst where wages did not increase.
United States
2050
Keating's projection of world order by GDP.
Global

Relationships (2)

Keating Critic Barack Obama
Keating criticizes Obama's leadership style as lacking risk-taking.
Keating Admirer Deng Xiaoping
Keating views Deng as the most influential leader for the 21st century.

Key Quotes (8)

"The leader must locate his own source of higher command and inner belief."
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"President Obama conducts himself as an arbitrator or mediator between the competing strands of American economic and political ideology."
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"Chancellor Merkel is the archetypal worry-wart. She does not lead; she assesses."
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"Because, in the end, everyone in political life gets carried out - the only relevant question is whether the pallbearers will be crying."
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"He walked away from the ideology of the Communist Party just as effectively as Mikhail Gorbachev walked away from the essence of the Soviet Union."
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"When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried victory and walked off the field."
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"The two Clinton terms and the two George W. Bush terms, that's four presidential terms, have cost US mightily."
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"The most compelling thing I've seen in years is that in the great burst of American productivity between 1990 and 2008, of that massive increment to national income, none of it went to wages."
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