Sarah Palin Keynote Speaker On Foreign Policy In Hong Kong?!: WTF!!!
Who is CLSA-Hong Kong,
and WTF could they
possibly want/get from
Sarah Palin?
The CLSA (Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia-Hong Kong) Investors Forum in Asia features former Republican nominee for Vice-President, Sarah Palin discussing China as well as other foreign policy subjects. This is Sarah Palin's first keynote speech outside the boundaries of North America.
Jonathan Slone, the CEO of CLSA, said that Sarah Palin was asked to speak on U.S. foreign policy, healthcare, governance, and China. The keynote speech by Palin to investors in China was closed to the media. She did acknowledge that her speech would be "different" with the media in the room.
The CLSA decided that their clients were more important than the possible media circus they would get with "media types trying to prove how stupid Sarah Palin is".
No doubt there will most likely be a youtube video of Sarah Palin's foreign policy speech about China and other issues that will be posted not long after the speech is finished. Sarah Palin was due to speak at the forum today.
CLSA
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Type: Private Founded: Hong Kong (1986) Headquarters: 
Hong Kong, China Key people: Jonathan Slone, Chairman and CEO Industry: Diversified financials Products: Financial services Employees: 1,350 (2009) Website: www.clsa.com
CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets is one of the region's largest and most highly rated independent equity brokers and financial-services groups, focused on providing broking, investment banking and asset management to corporate and institutional clients around the world.[1][2]
Founded in 1986, CLSA has its headquarters in Hong Kong and offices or representatives in 15 cities across the Asia-Pacific region, as well as New York, London, San Francisco and Dubai. CLSA is majority owned (65%) by Crédit Agricole, France's largest retail-banking group, with the remainder held by staff.
Unlike most of its competitors, CLSA is a research-driven agency broker.[3] It's known for its annual investor forums (particularly the calibre of its keynote speakers and the star acts at its parties), as well as its unique reports, the hallmarks of which are colourful and sometimes irreverent "cartoon" covers[4] and analysis that goes beyond the numbers and 'tells the story' (a legacy of the journalism background of its founders). It has produced a number of seminal reports, including Billion Boomers and Mr & Mrs Asia.
Josh has it up on the front page.
September 23, 2009 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I read some excerpts. If this was an international audience, which I understand it to have been, she did not consider that when she used lots of American argot. I've seen people smarter than she make this mistake, but she brands herself as someone equal to any task (even President of the US). So you don't say things like,
Even if she winked afterwards, she demonstrates once again her total lack of worldly knowledge.Also, when she talked about government-run health care to a room full of people who rely on government-run health care for themselves and their families, these words seem childish and simple-minded:
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In an echo of last year's presidential campaign, she criticized government policies that result in what she called a redistribution of wealth. "There is no justice in taking from one person and giving to another," she said. "History shows it simply does not work."
Who did she think she was talking to?
September 23, 2009 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink