Pivoting across the Pacific

CASSANDRA is in Cannes attending the World Policy Conference (a Davos-style gathering organised each year by IFRI, the leading French think-tank on international affairs). Listening to the great and the good, from President Alassane Ouattara of Côte d’Ivoire to Jean-Claude Trichet, former president of the European Central Bank, my thoughts turned—naturally enough in such esteemed company—to the rise of China and the prospects of a G2″ with the United States. That, in turn reminded me that today Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group and a thinker on these matters, is appearing at the World in 2013 festival in New York. […]