China

Ladies and gentlemen, I congratulate all of you on your participation in Saudi Aramco’s management development seminar.  Your selection marks you as future leaders of your country’s premier institution.  As such, some of you will become important actors on t

I have spent much of the past fifty years trying to help the United States benefit from a sound, mutually advantageous relationship with China.  I wish both countries well, but I confess I remain primarily concerned about my own country and its future.  The sharp deterioration in Sino-American re

I’m here at your kind invitation to discuss China, how bad our relations with it may get, and how the contest we’ve initiated with China is likely to play out.  Let me take a minute or two to set the context for this discussion.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Let’s not kid ourselves.  The armed forces of the United States and China are now very far along in planning and practicing how to go to war with each other.  Neither has any idea when or why it might have to engage the other on the battlefield but both agree on the list of contingencies that cou