Daniel Fried

American diplomat

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19 quotes

The rhetoric was ferocious, but the punch less so,
We will want the Chinese to go a lot farther than they have gone in the past,
Dealing a crippling blow to Iran's economy would probably require taking on big Chinese firms and banks,
There is no American interest that I can see in this,
The talk about differences is not idle speculation,
  • said Dan Fried, a former assistant secretary of state and ambassador to Poland who is now with the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank
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Instead, we seem to be allowing ourselves to be backed into a ‘sphere of influence’ situation where Iran is weaker but ends up better off than before. I can’t imagine Rubio agreeing to that,

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