• No, I'm not talking about America. I'm now talking of your emerging markets. Does that affect your business?

No, no. I haven't seen any impact so far of America's foreign policy on Intel's business.

• You missed by a day the great protest our communist leaders carried out on our eastern coast against joint exercises between India, America, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. Does the anti-Americanism bother you?

Of course it bothers me.

• Because you are an all-American brand, enterprise, idea, business.

It bothers me as an American citizen because no one likes to be disliked or looked down upon by anyone else. It has not affected our business per se, so from that point it doesn't bother me. But as an American citizen, I'd rather people respect our country and the principles and ideals we represent.

• And its president.

And its president. The U.S. is a democracy, India is a democracy. And we know what democracy means. It means fractious interaction between politicians, and people taking shots at each other.

• Your ambassador in New Delhi came to our office the other day and one of our young reporters asked him, 'Isn't it difficult to represent a country whose president is disliked around the world?' And he said, 'Well, his ratings in India are twice as high as his ratings in America.'

(Laughs) If you look at the press in America, it's as widely divergent in its opinions as political parties are. The Washington Post, The New York Times are on the left side, the Wall Street Journal is on the right side. You always have to read the press and go somewhere in the middle. You don't take the press literally for what it says.

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