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Its sometimes very frustrating doing diplomacy with the chinese, because theyre very very stringent. theres the principle and each person as a translator. whenever i was talking with a chinese principal i noticed that the translator had the text in his or her hand. so the translator was not actually translating with the chinese official was saying. the translator had the script right there. its very, very scripted. xi jinping does not like to engage. i was into meetings with xi jinping in beijin...

>> i think probably workwise, people will look at the polls on this. the majority of the american people support the presidents move. the policy we have in place, as i think the president very compellingly made the case is, weve been doing the same thing for 50 years and it hasnt worked. we need to try something different. the rest of the world is engaged in cuba now. i was there three years ago and went to the reception where there was like 15 ambassadors from all our allies. the uk, canada, fr...