I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

I have great respect for the Taiwanese. They have done an extraordinary job. But it was not a sustainable position to say that the legitimate government of China resides in Taiwan, which at that time didn't have much contact with the mainland.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.

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

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.