won t help we north carolina. nice. trump has a strange view of the world where he wants to be very confrontational with china and very accommodating to russia. and i at least think in some ways this gets it backwards because china at the end of the day is trying to be part of this global order. i mean certainly it s done well economically but whether you look at peacekeeping, whether you look at the u.n. and a whole variety of things, global warming, they have been getting more and more responsible over time. russia, on the other hand, has been less and less responsible and more of a spoiler. in a sense, it s explained the last 25 years. for the chinese for the last 25 years have grown in wealth and power and status in this western international order. they want to be more important within it, but they don t want to wreck it. for russia as putin has often said, it has been a disaster. he described the collapse of the soviet union as the greatest
so far as generally their rhetoric has been friendly, yes. but obviously there are big differences about the direction of the country. one president is finishing up his administration, trying to lock in those things that he believes are important. the other president has been very vocal about a variety of issues, kind of breaking with tradition in that regard. and so there is this natural tension that we have seen. and just in the last couple of weeks president obama has imposed sanctions on russia and kicked out diplomats. led a u.n. resolution condemning israeli settlements pass. if you ask the trump folks they will tell you the president is trying to box them in. do you think that is true? well, i don t know that the resolution in the u.n. sounds like president-elect trump is going to chart his own course in the middle east on the issue of