Robert Gates: “We are opposed to the independence of Taiwan.”

I think there is a cost. I think it does provide a basis for radicalization in the region.

Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine.

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.