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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN POLITICS

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Defending Freedom

In 2019, we must try harder to ago, 12 percent of children born ever; yet I fear the policeman of the
show why freedom, democracy, around the world died before they global international order is going
open markets and multilateral reached their fifth birthday. In 2015 into retirement.
cooperation deliver peace, progress that figure was four percent.
and prosperity for all. And we see yet again the
But we cannot deny that, consequences of US disengagement.
After the end of a turbulent year, in geopolitically, the world is on fire.
so many respects today’s world is a 2019 will be a pivotal year in deciding This is not the first time the world has
brighter place. whether we contain the fire, or pour heard the phrase, ‘America First’.
more fuel onto it. President Wilson used it in 1915 to
Technology continues to remove justify US non-intervention in World
barriers; global poverty is falling; and Determined American global War One. 18 months later, Germany
the world economy growing. 40 years leadership is needed now more than brought the war to America.

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