It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

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

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

China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have emerged thanks to economic success, will have to be integrated into the political system. There is no guarantee that this process will run smoothly.