There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC

We just ask the agency to make reasonable and honest decisions, and the public deserves no less.

That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law

A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.

I don't attend [church] regularly.

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly