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Larry Summers Warns U.S. Is Getting ‘Lonely’ as Other Powers Band Together

“There’s a growing acceptance of fragmentation, and—maybe even more troubling—I think there’s a growing sense that ours may not be the best fragment to be associated with,” former U.S. Treasury Secretary and President of Harvard University Larry Summers told Bloomberg in an interview published April 14.

“Somebody from a developing country said to me, ‘what we get from China is an airport. What we get from the United States is a lecture,’” he added. (Summers used that quote in his tweet to advertise the interview: https://twitter.com/LHSummers/status/1646967949297700872)

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