Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton walks off stage as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump puts his notes away after the third presidential debate at UNLV in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/John Locher)

by Azizkhan Akhmedov – DEA EHESS (Paris)

Member of American Chamber of Commerce in Uzbekistan

US presidential election is becoming the most interesting event of the year 2016 that attracts attention from all corners of the Globe.

It seems quite natural a wish of Facebook Nation citizen who lives faraway of the United States to know how the new coming President would implement her electoral programs to the benefits of US citizens and how her foreign policy would make the world safer and better

Prior to 20 days of culmination date the “Clinton System” that “is the scale and complexity of the connections involved, the length of time they have been in operation, the presence of former president Bill Clinton alongside Hillary as an equal partner in the enterprise, and the sheer magnitude of the funds involved” has lot of endorsements from respectable newspapers, TV channels, Wall Street and Silicon Valley companies, Billionaires like Warren Buffet, Nobel prize laureates Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, some honorable members of Republican Party, several members of Bilderberg Club.

Moreover, the Clinton team is able to spend 5 Mio USD per day to promote campaign and rain of donor’s money are continuing to lavish myriads of accounts.

Now, such serious approach to the election process gives Hillary Clinton double-digit lead over Republican Candidate business mogul Donald Trump making him “back seat driver” and promises huge eventual victory at the date of elections.

The new coming President if she is (Hillary Clinton) will inherits a huge complex of domestic challenges – to manage correctly country’s huge debt, to help companies create jobs, to solve immigration policy issues, to make educational reform that will make education affordable to different stratum of Americans, to implement a comprehensible tax policy and energy policy that will empower US companies and will make United States less dependable on the matter of foreign deliveries.

Despite these challenges, United States is still remaining the land of hope (The Terra Esperanza) for many people around the World. American legendary culture “l’esprit d’entreprise” and “Laisser-Faire” attracts millions of clever and smart persons to realize their dreams.

Today America’s income per capita eight times higher than China’s, United States is the largest exporter of agricultural products services and goods, without counting huge capital market that is the lifeblood of any economy. But the most privilege America has it is privilege to innovate that any country in world hasn’t.

Thomas Donilon former national security adviser pointed out at his speech at Kansas University “The largest eight technology companies in the world by market capitalization are based in the United States and when it comes to next frontiers in extraordinary breakout technology like 3-D manufacturing, artificial intelligence, nanotechnologies, cloud computing, robotics, big data and advanced material science, American entrepreneurs and companies are leading the way” More than 30 percent of all money spent on research and development in 2014 some 465 billion was spent in the United States.

Donilon is continuing “40 percent of the people receiving advanced degrees in science, technology engineering, and mathematics at American Universities are foreign nationals with no legal way to stay here” Just imagine how strong this stratum could be as global workforce.

Secretary Clinton Words “No matter who you are or where you come from, if you work hard and play by the rules, you should have the opportunity to build a good life for yourself and your family” engenders more hope to people who is expecting some big changes from immigration reform.

America’s approach to creating ethnic diaspora that preserves family values and traditions is giving leading chance to promote US national interests in globalized world

However, the new coming President (if she is) will rise to many challenges and will inherit foreign policy that continues to undermine superpower status of the United States and the slogan of Secretary Clinton “We cannot solve all the problems in the world, but there is no big problem that can be solved without America” becomes burning amid of existing conflicts and upheavals the world is facing at the time being.

Emerging powers like Russia, China, Turkey, India, Brazil and others are showing that they can challenge US leadership where it is not useful for them and exercise their influence within their own regions. They are sending a clear message they will not support any more American leadership if it negatively impacts their national interests.

Though, latest rhetoric and speeches are showing haw hawkish Hillary Clinton can be, no one is putting in doubt her biggest advantage and talent over any politician in cultivating political relationships with world leaders. She has combined all her knowledge, political experience, formidable analytical ability, working ethics and extremely subtle sense of humor. All her approaches to fixing the different issues show how deep and competently she is establishing such relationships.

She was able to have very positive contacts with Japan Premier Minister where she was called as “Operation Tomodachi”. (Tomodachi translated as friend from Japanese). The good knowledge of Chinese civilization and recent history helped her to make a very fruitful dialogue with the Chinese government. Famous slogan “When you are in common boat cross the river peacefully together” is circulating in many Chinese and American Offices. She is also warned “it was in America’s best long-term national interest to have a constructive working relationship with Russia if possible. But we had to be realistic about Putin’s intentions and the danger he represented to his neighbors and the global order, and design our policy accordingly.” Her famous postal card to President Sarkozy “I may not be Cinderella, but you’ll always be my Prince Charming” can be served as Diplomacy’s Gold Standard. Moreover, one of the Hillary Clinton’s big success was to start negotiating with Iranians their nuclear program and bringing them to the bargaining table.

Quite possible the world will see new implementation of principle of “Smart Power” according to Hillary that is “choosing the right combination of tools diplomatic, economic, military, political, legal, and cultural – for each situation”

I think her good knowledge of Central Asia will help to next administration to balance correctly and wisely US national interests in the region amid growing Russian and Chinese influences and to develop useful and indispensable contacts with regional powers like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. I do believe also the combination of “Soft power” with other tools will help to overcome some distrust of these Nations towards the United States.

But my big hope is she will find the means to lead multinational efforts to reestablish the World order according to Westfalia System and will be able to end the actual wars and she will not start new ones.