AIC Board Member, Sir Richard Dalton, delivered the Lord Denman Memorial Lecture to the Royal Society for Asian Affairs on June 15 2016.

Introduction

It is an honour to be asked to deliver the fourth Charles Denman memorial lecture to the Royal Society for Asian Affairs. You have chosen a lecturer who knows a little about West Asia, but nothing about East Asia. Though I can claim a great grandfather who was a Governor of Hong Kong.

It’s 29 September 2016: the Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency reports that President Rouhani has returned from New York where he addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations and met numerous Heads of State and Government. Unfortunately, he has had to tell the Iranian people that the US and its partners have not done, and will not do, enough to enable Iran’s reintegration into the world economy.