His relative status in the leadership is strengthened when he focuses on foreign policy, where he is clearly the No. 1. |
If Boeing and Microsoft and others who are seen as deeply engaged and committed to the relationship speak frankly about the stress, that is of real value. |
The political, business and what I might call the establishment community here is very atypical of the rest of the country. |
There's pride in the International District about China's rise, and lots of people will be quite happy that he's coming. |
This Washington is an alternative vision of what the US-China relationship can be. Here we have a state establishment that is almost 100 percent behind encouraging engagement, and a perception that things are moving well on both sides. |