When former president Bill Clinton returned from North Korea with the two released journalists, he played it unusually low-key. But that hasn’t had any impact on his wife. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must feel a little jilted given her remarks at a talk in Kinshasha.

When asked by a university student what her husband thought of China and its involvement with the Democratic Republic of Congo, she replied: “You want to know what my husband thinks?” and then: “My husband is not the secretary of state, I am. You ask my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I’m not going to channel my husband.”