Kenneth Lieberthal Quotations

Everyone else sees the substantive issues. But you spend endless hours working on all the other stuff: Who's going to get invited to the state dinner?

you had the sense that they were there to tee up a real negotiation.

Taiwan is probably the most dangerous situation in East Asia at this point,

The President himself is frankly more than a little irritated and would like to see a lot of cooperation from Taiwan.

It's up to the top leadership to decide how much they want to jeopardize the U.S. relationship.

China is having a tough time figuring out what the language is to allow them to back off.

You could well see some companies decide with their next four plants to put three in China and one in India where three or four years ago they would have built all four in China.

Is there something you can do where you can say this is the first time that the president has done this with a famous leader?

We believe that the U.S. can increase China's confidence about its intentions by taking the lead to build China more effectively into multilateral energy regimes.

This is really the only place in East Asia where I think there is a real possibility that we could see military conflict in the next couple of years if things go badly.