Max Baucus: “There is a real tension there between Kim Jong-un and President Xi.”

Sanctions are not achieving the desired result so far.

They will not because the Chinese have a neuralgic fixation on the status quo and stability within China.

In fact, the opposite was just the case. They kept complaining to us about our restrictions of technology transfer to China.

The most important geopolitical matter that crossed my desk during the 3 years I was there was TPP, and we blew it.