The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.

Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.

Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.