Kenneth Lieberthal
Kenneth Lieberthal
Kenneth Guy Lieberthalis an American political scientist who specializes in Chinese politics...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 September 1943
endless hours invited sees spend state
Everyone else sees the substantive issues. But you spend endless hours working on all the other stuff: Who's going to get invited to the state dinner?
impact overall small terms
In terms of the overall impact on the visit, it's small potatoes.
produce public
I don't think it's going to produce any fundamental change. This is still an autocratic system. There are things that they just don't want the public to know about.
famous president time
Is there something you can do where you can say this is the first time that the president has done this with a famous leader?
tee
you had the sense that they were there to tee up a real negotiation.
cooperation frankly himself irritated president
The President himself is frankly more than a little irritated and would like to see a lot of cooperation from Taiwan.