TIME INTERVIEW: Brzezinski: There Has Been Progress

The one major area of foreign affairs to which the Carter Administration has devoted relatively little effort is China. To remedy that, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski set out for Peking last week at the head of a team of military, diplomatic and economic experts (but no reporters). Shortly before his departure, at a lunch with the editors of TIME, he was asked for his assessment of the degree to which the Carter Administration was succeeding—or failing—in its foreign policy. His answer:

A big country like the U.S. is not like a speedboat on a lake. It can't veer suddenly...

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