Economics, finance, foreign affairs, the environment – you name it, they’re there.

They are fluent Russian speakers. They have a perspective on Russia that the previous generation, Mao and even Deng Xiaoping, did not have. Mao and Deng were much more suspicious of Russia. This generation is...

I do not think that the Chinese Communist Party is going to implode and collapse like it did in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This Communist Party is going to fight to stay in...

They all come out of the party and technocratic backgrounds. Many are engineers.

The key variable is Chinese domestic politics. How do you demand anything in Chinese culture and not get it.

If you study the period of time that Jiang has been in power, he has assiduously and meticulously sought the support of several different constituencies within the party, army and state apparatus, and I think...

The U.S. right now is bending over backwards to engage China on a wide variety of issues.