France would prefer a multi polar world where U.S. power is slightly restrained,

The Chinese are not going to like being scolded, … But if they are of the mind to, they can read it with a positive spin.

I suspect it will be like malaria — an operational hazard of doing business in China, … After the short-term disruptions … the level of fear will even out, and then things will balance as...

France sees China as an important part of that. China and France have declared a strategic partnership and both sides think about how to restrain US power and France would like to play the China...

I don’t think it’s going to be a big kind of conflict between the White House and China because they’ve basically agreed to let the other side call it what they want.

Information technology, the environment, aerospace, energy, and biotech are where the (government) money is focused on.