Committees and Interaction

Given a committee as a possible internal mechanism for analysis and resolution, that committee must still have a single organic interface to other entities.

For example, the President of the United States might have a cabinet meeting, but when the president speaks to China at the highest level, the dialogue between the President and China is an interpersonal interaction that becomes recorded as the official conversation between those two nations.

The President changes, but the historical record does not. The president is not the United States, but must still act with full responsibility for the previous conversations and actions of his country.

China should not and does not expect to have to speak to each cabinet member about the same topic or about different aspects of the same topic. Each cabinet member brings a different aspect to bear, and, just as with the kaumatua, the president takes all into consideration to act and phrase the president’s behaviour, statements, and responses.