When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them.

We are doomed to coexist.

The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.

Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.