Global Stability - Economic As Well As

The Legitimacy Of The Leadership Depends On What That Country Thinks Of Its Leaders.

One Has To Define Very Clearly What One's Objectives Are, Determine In Advance How Much One Is Prepared To Pay To Achieve That Objective And Then Act Accordingly.

I Encouraged The Chinese To Support Pol Pot. I Encouraged The Thailand|thai To Help The Khmer Rouge. The Question Was How To Help The Cambodian People. Pol Pot Was An Abomination. We Could Never Support Him. But China Could.

Russia's Only Real Geostrategic Option - The Option That Would Give Russia A Realistic International Role And Also Maximize The Opportunity Of Transforming And Socially Modernizing Itself - Is Europe.

One Thing We Know: Things Will Become Even More Destabilized If We Don't Step Up Sino-u.s. Cooperation. If You Want To Envisage A Worst-case Scenario, It Is That Putin Reveals Step By Step The Inner Weaknesses Of The West, Particularly In Europe, And The Chinese See In That An Opportunity For Emulation In The Far East, And Then Step By Step Through A Gradual Process We Will Be Witnessing The Emergence Of Sino-russian Partnership In Favor Of A Drastic Change In The Global Balance Of Power.