u.s./china relations. you have carrera and maduro, almost a competition as to who picks up the anti-american mantle from south america. it will be interesting to see what choices either of them makes over time and where he ultimately ends up. is asylum still an option as jim ma say dough was saying. key escort him and take him to another country? i think any of those things are possible. he doesn t really have travel papers. that was not barrier from getting from hong kong to moscow. there are multiple governments involved in these sort of transactions right now. and what s unclear is the extent to which snowden is in position to dictate his own fate. to what extent he can control the outcome here. so you re saying it would be up to these respective