Below, please find the latest articles to have appeared in print and electronic media about CSIS and its experts. For your reference, there is also a link to archived media coverage of CSIS.
Michael Green, a CSIS senior adviser, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Bush Says He'll Press G8 Leaders to Fulfill Africa Commitments."
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush said he will press the leaders of the world's biggest economies to make good on their commitments to help fund efforts to combat disease and hunger in Africa."It's also a G8 with a lot of political leaders who are pretty weak,'' said Michael Green, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The leaders of Japan, France, Canada and Great Britain are suffering low approval ratings in polls, as Bush is in the U.S., he said. Read more
July 1
Michael Green, a CSIS senior adviser, was quoted by Reuters, "G8 Summit of Politically Weak Facing Tough Issues."
The Group of Eight summit in Japan next week will bring together politically weak leaders to handle tough economic problems at a meeting where the Russian newcomer will be the center of curiosity. The G8 countries are grappling with a faltering global economy and soaring oil and food prices for which they will likely produce statements of concern but little more, as short-term solutions for such intractable problems are not realistic, analysts say. "This G8 is noteworthy, of course, because it's President Bush's last. It's also a G8 with a lot of political leaders who are pretty weak," Michael Green, senior adviser and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said. Read the article
June 27
Mike Green, a CSIS Senior Adviser, was quoted by the Washington Post, "U.S. to Delist North Korea as a Sponsor of Terrorism."
KYOTO, Japan, June 26 -- President Bush moved Thursday to drop North Korea from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism and to lift some trading sanctions, after the isolated totalitarian state turned over a long-delayed report that includes details of plutonium production in its nuclear program. Nuclear weapons experts had mixed reactions. "There is some important progress represented by the agreement, but it's a worrisome omission with regard to Syria and highly enriched uranium. So there's a lot missing in this deal, and a lot wrong with this deal," said Michael J. Green, who was a Korea specialist on the National Security Council until 2005 and is now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The North Koreans "may conclude there is no serious consequence for testing weapons or transferring technology." Read more
June 20
Michael Green, a CSIS senior adviser, was quoted by Reuters, "U.S. Looks for N. Korea Declaration 'in Near Future.'"
The United States hopes North Korea will produce an overdue declaration of its nuclear programs "in the near future," said a U.S. official on Friday who held out the possibility it could come next week. [ . . .]"We appear ready to accept considerably less than the original agreement," said Michael Green, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former Bush administration National Security Council official.Read More
June 12
Michael Green, a CSIS senior adviser, was quoted by National Public Radio, "Laura Bush Steps in to Foreign Policy Spotlight."
In Paris Thursday, donor countries promised to do more to help Afghanistan's fragile government. The U.S. is leading the way, pledging more than $10 billion to help secure and develop the country. The announcement was made by Laura Bush, a first lady who has long shown interest in women's issues in Afghanistan — and is now an even more public figure on that and other foreign policy matters. Though Myanmar limited U.S. aid to cyclone victims, a White House Asia expert in the first term of the Bush administration, Michael Green, said he wouldn't blame Laura Bush's tough talk. "There's not one iota of evidence that the regime closed up or resisted help because she said it. Quite the opposite: I think it raised the issue so that governments around the world were more focused on pressuring the regime to do the right thing," he said. Read the article
May 6
Michael Green, a CSIS senior advisor, was quoted by the Los Angeles Times, "Cyclone Death Toll Could Top 10,000, Myanmar Says."
he government of Myanmar said today that the death toll from a weekend cyclone would surpass 10,000, with potentially hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. The new toll marked a sharp escalation from the previous official tally of 351. Mike Green, a former National Security Council expert on Asia, said in an interview that it was unclear whether the cyclone would provide an opportunity for the United States to engage Myanmar, because "the government has been hermit-like." "This will be a real test case," said Green, who is a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, adding that any acceptance of U.S. assistance "would be significant." Read the article
May 6
Michael Green, a CSIS senior adviser, was quoted by United Press International, "Aid Programs Ready to Help Myanmar."
The Myanmar government says more people were killed by a tidal wave sweeping away entire villages than by the monster cyclone triggering the wall of water. The weekend cyclone's destruction forced the military junta ruling Myanmar, formerly Burma, to reluctantly accept international aid and foreign humanitarian workers to supply food, water and shelter, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.Mike Green, a former National Security Council expert on Asia, told the Times it was unclear whether the cyclone would thaw relations between the United States and the isolationist Myanmar military leadership."This will be a real test case," said Green, a senior adviser at the Washington think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies. Accepting U.S. assistance "would be significant."Read the article
May 6
Michael Green, a CSIS senior adviser, was quoted by the Associated Press, "First Lady Ever Prominent as Diplomat."
When President Bush spoke Tuesday about the U.S. response to the killer cyclone in Myanmar, first lady Laura Bush was standing right behind him in the Oval Office. But really, she was the one out front. Mrs. Bush presided in the White House briefing room one day before the president spoke on the devastation in South Asia. She blistered military leaders in Myanmar as being "very inept" for repressing citizens and decimating an economy, and urged them to accept humanitarian aid to help a shaken nation recover. The Myanmar example shows how Mrs. Bush can make a difference on foreign affairs, said Mike Green, a former senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council under President Bush. In one fell swoop, she can take on an issue that is not bitterly divisive at home, empower democracy efforts in Myanmar and lobby first ladies in Asia during her travels. Washington bureaucrats also know to make Myanmar a priority when they might not otherwise. "They know it's from her lips to the president's ears without anyone getting in between," said Green, who is now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.Read the article
May 2
Michael Green, a CSIS senior adviser, was quoted by the New York Times, "Stores Hint at Change Under New Castro."
Can a rice maker possibly be revolutionary?There they were, piled up one atop another, Chinese-made rice makers selling for $70 each. Beside them, sleek DVD players. Across the well-stocked electronics store were computers and televisions and other household appliances that President Raúl Castro recently decreed ought to be made available to average Cubans, or at least those who could afford them."Is it possible for Raúl Castro to move beyond the cult of personality of his brother Fidel, who is in the same league with Mao?" asked Michael Green, a former Bush administration Asia specialist who is now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Cuba could turn out to be more like North Korea, Mr. Green said, which undertook market-oriented reforms in 2002 that brought little change in the grim conditions there.Read the article
May 1
Michael Green, a CSIS Senior Adviser, was quoted by The Economist, "North Korea and Syria: Oh What a Tangled Web They Weave."
Judging by its past behaviour, North Korea would do pretty much anything for cash; there are suspicions that it helped the Khan network supply nuclear material to Libya. That said, providing engineers and designs for Syria's reactor may chiefly have been meant to tweak America's nose, says Michael Green, a former Bush administration official now at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a think-tank in Washington, DC. The Bush administration and North Korea fell out badly in 2002 over charges that Kim Jong Il's regime had secretly been trying to enrich uranium (also a potential bomb ingredient) while plutonium production was frozen by a previous agreement. The following year North Korea privately threatened to expand its “deterrent”, test it (which it later did) and even sell it. With little to export beyond counterfeit currency, drugs and crises, says Mr Green, North Korea used Syria to up the ante—and the expected compensation for later agreeing to desist. Read more
Michael Green, a CSIS senior adviser, was quoted by Reuters, "Congressional Calculus Triggered Syria Disclosures."
WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - If U.S. President George W. Bush wants to make progress on ending North Korea's nuclear ambitions before he leaves office next year, he first has to close the deal with the U.S. Congress."Congress has been asking for the specifics on Syria before they would agree to any sanctions lifting," said Mike Green, a former Bush administration Asia specialist now at the CSIS think tank. "The administration had no choice but to brief."Read more
April 26
Michael Green, a CSIS senior advisor, had an op-ed published in the Boston Globe, "New Urgency in Burma."
Last summer, thousands of saffron-robed monks marched peacefully with ordinary citizens to demand freedom and justice for the 51 million people of Burma. They were shot, arrested, and tortured by the military junta that has ruled Burma since 1988, and in response the international community demanded change. The United States and Europe introduced new financial sanctions targeting the regime leadership. Burma's Southeast Asian neighbors issued an unusually harsh statement condemning the brutality. Even Chinese leaders called for "reform" and a "democratic process."Read more
Mike Green, a CSIS Senior Adviser, was quoted by the Washington Post, "Privately, Bush Presses China Over Crackdown on Tibet."
Michael J. Green, the top Asia expert at the National Security Council until 2006, said that Tibet is a much tougher issue to discuss with the Chinese leadership than other topics that have captured the attention of Olympic activists, such as China's support of the governments in Burma and Sudan. He noted that Hu was the Communist Party chief of Tibet in the late 1980s, organizing a tough crackdown in 1989 as a steppingstone in his path to power.Green said that Rice and her predecessor, Colin L. Powell, would always bring up Tibet "in ways that are not threatening" in order to press Beijing to start a substantive dialogue with the Dalai Lama. Hu would not respond, he said, while Yang's predecessor, Li Zhaoxing, would erupt in a tirade about how China liberated the Tibetans from a feudal Buddhist tyranny. "You would either get silence or a strong negative reaction," said Green, now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.Read the article
March 21
Mike Green, a CSIS Senior Adviser, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal, "Olympic Games Intact, Despite Unrest."
Governments around the world have issued measured responses to China's crackdown on Tibetan protesters, despite an outcry from human-rights groups and calls to use this summer's Olympic Games as a forum to condemn Beijing."I think this [push to boycott the opening ceremonies] will gain some momentum. The Tibet situation is not going to go away," said Michael Green of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies, who served as Mr. Bush's chief Asia adviser in 2004 and 2005.Read the article
March 5
Michael Green, a CSIS Senior Adviser, was quoted by Reuters, "Republicans May Echo Clinton Attacks on Obama."
Mike Green, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Clinton and Obama may differ to some degree on tactics but they are not far apart on foreign policy substance."In the general election you will see some very stark differences in policy," said Green, a former White House official who has advised McCain but emphasized he was not speaking on behalf of the campaign.Read the article
February 22
Michael Green, a CSIS senior advisor, was quoted by Bloomberg, "Rice Seeks to Salvage North Korea Nuclear Accord on Asia Trip."
Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will try to revive an effort to rid North Korea of nuclear arms as she travels to East Asia for the first time in more than a year for talks with China and U.S. allies. "There's no doubt that both Iran and North Korea watch the international community, and especially the United States, in relation to each other,'' said Green, a former North Korea adviser to Bush on the National Security Council.Read the article
February 7
Michael Green, a CSIS Senior Adviser, was appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room, “Claims of China Spying on U.S. Soil."
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well Wolf, one congressman told me the U.S. loses $62 billion a year in intellectual property theft at the hands of the Chinese. And we're now told the Chinese have a huge infiltration network tapping American business and military secrets. [...] MICHAEL GREEN, FORMER NSC OFFICIAL: The Chinese do have hacker units. The PLA and other organs of the Chinese government see cyberspace as a battlefield in the event of conflict with the U.S., Japan or any other country. TODD: But Michael Green says it's foolish to look at every Chinese student or businessman in the U.S. and see a spy. Others experts say America has to share the blame. It doesn't produce enough engineers they say, so ambitious American companies recruit from where else, China. Read the transcript
January 28
Michael Green, a CSIS senior adviser, was quoted by the Associated Press, "Rice, Australian Foreign Minister Meet."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration will get a close look this week at a new Australian government that has distanced itself from the pro-American policies of its conservative predecessor. Michael Green, Bush's former senior adviser on Asia, does not see a fundamental shift in Australia's policy toward the U.S., despite the changes. "Rudd sounds a little bit more of an Asian theme to his foreign policy than Howard," said Green, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "But he recognizes that the U.S.-Australian alliance is indispensable for Australia and for the region." Read the article
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