This year the Copenhagen Democracy Summit focused on creating a more robust European military capability to defend democracy…with or without the US. A couple of shocking data points from the annual Democracy Perception Index: a poll of 110-thousand people in 100 countries showed that more people have a positive view of China than of the US…and perceptions of Donald Trump were more negative than those of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. This was Jeanne’s seventh year as moderator and emcee, and her conversation with former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and Admiral Rob Bauer, the former Chair of NATO’s Military Committee made the front page of a Danish newspaper.
