James Rubin
James Rubin
James Phillip "Jamie" Rubinis an American former diplomat and journalist. He writes a regular column on foreign affairs for the Sunday Times of London. He was Visiting Scholar 2013–14 at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Having served in the State Department during the administration of President Bill Clinton, he became a Sky News television news journalist and commentator. He is married to the CNN correspondent and anchor Christiane Amanpour...
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We have no illusions about China's desire to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses by many different means. It is absolutely not true that we downplayed any evidence of this. We took the issue seriously, as our actions demonstrate.
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We have no illusions about China an d will continue to operate with the expectation that China, like many other countries, will seek to acquire sensitive information and technology for military uses.
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There are some extremists, and the U.S. is going to step up its effort to enforce security along the border and enforce security in the U.S. sector. And there may be some problems, but I don't think we should blow this out of proportion.
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We're not going to lose any sleep if Saddam Hussein suddenly isn't their leader, from whatever reason. No tears will be shed.
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We urge North Korea to recognize this practicality and to avoid exacerbating the situation by keeping its craft north of the line.
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We are looking for substantive decisions from the leaders, real decisions.
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We recognize there are a lot of events that are converging at this very moment, but we don't see them as linked and we don't see them as a crisis. We see them as hurdles that we obviously will need to overcome.
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What we have said is that our goal is to complete the work, if possible, by Sunday. And we don't want to speculate what would happen after Sunday.
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We are committed to fight terrorism here and in every country in the world, and unfortunately again, Fidel Castro is wrong.
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We dismissed those ridiculous numbers out of hand, ... We are not going to pay compensation to confirm that they are living up to their obligations under this important nuclear agreement.
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We are concerned that they have (and) are repairing and rebuilding some facilities that could be used for that.
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We do expect to be making decisions on these visa applications fairly quickly.
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We have made clear that we believe that we already have the authority for a military strike, should such an option be chosen.
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Our focus is on deeds and not so much words and personalities.