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And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

Try to think for your own why the Russians and the Chinese do not like the idea that whoever takes aggressive steps to keep order within his sovereign borders should not accept others to intervene physically.

The Chinese were good to us. The war years for us Russians in China were very good years.

I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.

Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.