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

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

Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separate state. That will start a huge crisis if that happens.

We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

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 see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.