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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. A Trump presidency will plunge the United States into an era of unknowns that has little parallel in the nation’s 240-year history.
5. There are a lot of columnists who get out and opine.
6. Unfettered markets eventually get out of whack.
7. American officials sometimes dig into corporations because they are suspected to be witting or unwitting suppliers of technology to the North Koreans or the Iranians.
8. The remarkable thing about the Chinese is that they’ve operated differently than the Russians, the Iranians, and the North Koreans. By and large, they have not done destructive hacks.
9. Bloggers are not reporters.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. In the Chinese view, the United States has designed its own system of rules about what constitutes ‘legal’ spying and what is illegal.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. Never mention a web site is coming until it’s already there.
19. 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.
20. The United States lost a bit of the moral high ground when it comes to warning the world of the danger of cyberattacks.