Development Assistance and Governance Initiative

I think blended finance, development finance, is what’s needed, is the future. The U.S. is using a model that was created 40 years ago and I think it’s way past time for modernizing our capabilities.

It is still in Japan’s strategic interest to keep alluding to the need to keep the ideas behind the TPP alive.

The whole spirit of multilateralism is on life support. Normally you’d want to heap praise on some other country for taking on a larger share of this global burden, but Trump doesn’t think about global problems needing to be globally shared.