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

I am against portraying China as the demon of the global community. China has grasped more quickly than other countries what globalization means and what it demands. The country has learned how to use other people's innovations for itself. India, incidentally, is not far behind China in this respect. Both are not nations in the European sense, but rather cultural communities with enormous markets. The challenge of the future is to work out how to deal with that.

The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.

I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.