Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao. I know what China looked like before he took over, and so in my own mind, I don't think of Deng Xiaoping as an oppressor. I think of somebody who, faced with that crisis, made a very painful and decision with which I cannot agree. But I also think of him as a great reformer.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.

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