I deal with foreign countries. I made a lot of money dealing against China. I've made a lot of money dealing against many other countries.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Although I don't like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They're the next world power.
I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.
If I really treated business like a businessman, I wouldn't have done what I have done - opposing China. No businessman in their right mind would do this because you know that there will be repercussions.
I have spent time in Mongolia, in China.
Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary instruments. We're buying and selling goods back and forth, trading oil and so forth.
Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.
I had the interesting experience of having lived and worked for six years in China with Procter & Gamble, and that just changes, I think, your whole perspective in living overseas and living in a country like China.
But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.
We treat China as a normal trading and economic partner.