All the energy will go into writing speeches for Gore or somebody else. American policy will be marking time. We'll respond to crises when they develop. This is partly our fault because TMD has been so clumsily handled as an issue by the US government. In the short term, this administration only responds to domestic political pressures or the threat of disaster from the outside.
China uses the threat of disaster.
You have to use domestic political pressures. You have friends on the Hill and elsewhere in this society. You have to keep working in those areas. He wanted a smiley-face visit to China while Monica was testifying back here. In the longer term, every administration will be affected by Taiwan's own situation, its status, in the minds of the people globally and domestically.