Max Baucus: “It is important for the United States to let China know that so as to discourage other potential actions that China may…”

We've kept the peace since WWII. We lead. We help solve disputes between countries, upholding our values.

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

This is not a fixable Washington problem. This is a condition, like a chronic condition, that we are going to have to cope with.

Sometime back, Senator Max Baucus, now the Ambassador to China, and I went down--we did not tell anybody; we just went down--and for 18 hours discovered the world according to Fidel Castro, and then also with an ag group trying to…