I have been observing China for more than 30 years and am impressed how logically and wisely it tackles its problems. Obviously the international system could be unbalanced by China's rising power - if we don't prepare ourselves for the new competitive situation, that is. But it is an economic challenge, not aggression on the level of Hitler.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

I don't read books, I write them.

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

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.

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