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We need to achieve greater coherence and greater comprehensiveness in American foreign policy.

Let me explain.

The US-China relationship, the most important in the world, but clearly the United States

does need to have a foreign policy that is coherent and assigns the appropriate priority

to this relationship, noting that we're not just the biggest geostrategic rival of each

other, we're also among our biggest trading partners.

So this is very different from the days of the Cold War.

I think if you recognize the centrality of the US-China relationship, if you recognize

the need to do this in trade relationship terms, in alliance relationships, that you

would recognize that there are areas in which we could improve the coherence of what it

is that we were doing.

And we could also make it more comprehensive.

Russia would love to get your thoughts on Vladimir Putin, why he does what he does, is

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