Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.

The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.

Of course, in principle, they're against it. We are the ones that keep asking them what they think about it. I think their basic concern is a land-based missile defense of Taiwan hooked into the American communications and other systems, which in effect would make Taiwan then an outpost of the United States. That is a concern they frequently express. A missile defense shield of the United States, while they may not like it, it is not a big obstacle to our relationship.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

How to Achieve The New World Order

The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.