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" There's this incredibly young, dynamic, educated population in Iran that is essentially pretty pro-American. "

David E. Sanger

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" In the Chinese view, the United States has designed its own system of rules about what constitutes 'legal' spying and what is illegal. "

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" Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved. "

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" As we put autonomous cars on the road, connect Alexas to our lights and our thermostats, put ill-protected Internet-connected video cameras on our houses, and conduct our financial lives over our cell phones, our vulnerabilities expand exponentially. "

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" Until Japan's economy drove off a cliff, there was a running argument in Asia about whether it would be wiser to follow the 'Japan model' - with its megacorporations, jobs for life, state control of strategic industries - or the 'American model' of largely unfettered markets. "

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" In the old nuclear age, you could sit under a big screen under a mountain in Colorado, and you could see where the missiles were coming from. "

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" What the Russians did in the election in 2016 was clearly short of war, yet it was a pretty aggressive act to go into another country's voting system. "

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" If you go in to vote, and you are no longer confident that the vote that you put in is the way it's going to get recorded because you don't know if the Russians or someone else have gotten into the voting system, that undercuts your trust in the democratic process. "

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" The United States lost a bit of the moral high ground when it comes to warning the world of the danger of cyberattacks. "

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" After more than two decades of traveling with American presidents and chief diplomats - on visits to places that have included some of the world's most repressive nations - I am used to watching leaders disappear behind closed doors. "

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" When Japan was on the rise, American governors would come to inspect Toyota City and study 'just in time' manufacturing to increase efficiency; when America was at its peak in the late 1990s, the world beat a path to its venture capitalists. "

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" Because our government has been so incompetent at protecting its highly sophisticated cyberweapons, those weapons have been stolen out of the electronic vaults of the National Security Agency and the C.I.A. and shot right back at us. "

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" If there's a cyberattack from China or Russia or Romania or Mexico, it may well run through a server in another country. And it may take months before you know where it really came from. "

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" Even China's leaders routinely let the news media pool in, though they do their best to ignore them. "

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" There are a lot of columnists who get out and opine. "

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" There is no single 'China model' to running a mega-economy. Instead, it is a blend. From the Europeans and the Japanese, the Chinese have borrowed the concept of protecting essential industries. "

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" State oil companies in Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iran, and Mexico have often been intelligence targets for the United States. "

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" Mr. Obama is the first president to have grown up in the region - he lived in Indonesia as an elementary school student - and he has never doubted that America is underinvested in Asia and overinvested in the Middle East. "

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" A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation's 240-year history. "

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" I did think that it'd be truly cool to be a foreign correspondent, and it was. There is a degree of freedom - and the right to roam the earth on somebody else's nickel. "

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" In an age of reckonings, when so many bills have come due, Obama has made the case for an America that can no longer do it all. It must pick its fights. "

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" The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security. "

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" When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally - in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have drained America's treasury and spirit for the past decades. "

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" I've been covering North Korea nuclear issues since I was a young reporter in the Tokyo bureau of 'The Times' and wrote some of the first pieces about the existence of the program at Yongbyon. "

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" We had a great chance in the mid-2000s to reach an accord with the Chinese on both energy and environmental issues. That deal would have essentially been that the U.S. could provide the equipment and expertise, and the Chinese would help close the trade gap. It was a huge opportunity that we failed to exploit. "

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" We have spent so much time worrying about a 'cyber Pearl Harbor,'' the attack that takes out the power grid, that we have focused far too little on the subtle manipulation of data that can mean that no election, medical record, or self-driving car can be truly trusted. "

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" Unfettered markets eventually get out of whack. "

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" Mr. Trump has been consistent in some areas. Since the late 1980s, he has nurtured a set of preoccupations, chiefly that America's allies - Japan and Saudi Arabia among them - are ripping America off. "

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" Never mention a web site is coming until it's already there. "

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