16 Quotes by Kenneth Lieberthal

They're not going to time their activities to the American sense of what's right.

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

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?

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

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?

In terms of the overall impact on the visit, it's small potatoes.

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.