The next six weeks is a critical window for U.S., China relations. The administration is clearly sending a signal to the Chinese that we need results.

We know that the global problem is probably $600 billion or more in magnitude, of which China represents 60 percent of the global problem. It's being manufactured in China, counterfeiting and piracy. It's being exported around the world and certainly into the U.S. market, so the U.S. companies are very concerned.

We're sending a strong and clear signal

With Vietnam hosting (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum) in November, this is a critical window of opportunity. Vietnam cannot afford to let it slip.

Over the next six weeks or so, they'll be inside the pipelines with their electronic equipment and their sounding devices and they'll be testing every foot of this pipeline.

[Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed.] Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, ... I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.