The World Leaders' Statecraft

I think all of them had a sense of history. I suppose the person with the greatest sort of obsession with history was Putin because he's responsible for most appalling amount of bloodshed and disaster on Europe. But there's no doubt Angela Merkel was a superb negotiator. She was very good at understanding, you know, in the G20 or in the G8 or in NATO. Obama was a brilliant analyzer of situations. One person that impressed me a lot just because of his vision, although I don't agree with everything he's done, is Prime Minister Modi. He's one of the most kind of dedicated to trying to solve the problems in his country. And so we did have frequent arguments