Thomas M. Countryman: “The U.S. relationship with China is one of the most important and complex relationships we have in the world.”

The policy without professionals is by definition an amateur policy. You have to help make the choices that bring this country forward.

We cannot allow these weapons usable materials, to be separated from spent nuclear fuel.

China says--and I think it is borne out by their actions--that they do not support North Korea as a nuclear weapons state and that they wish to see the entire Korean Peninsula denuclearized.

This agreement is not a commercial contract. It does not provide for the sale of nuclear equipment or technology to China.