dagg grand strategy to reality is. americans are not typically very good at doing grand strategic readjustments i would say it happens now and then but that kind of readjustment is difficult to achieve in a democracy the flip side of that of course is that the domestic governance structure by and large tends to work i do think there needs to be a rethink of american grand strategy there needs to be a commitment to a fight against climate change there does need to be some sense of where our interests are in the world that is defined clearly articulated and my hope for the united states is that we see a debate about that in the forthcoming presidential election now they it from what i understand their merican policy views every china has long been based on the presumption of its eventually liberalization and implicitly on the submission to the american head gemini what do you think is more disturbing for the americans right now that the chinese are not going to remake themselves in their american image or is it that they