China Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.

— Henry A. Kissinger

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.

— Henry A. Kissinger

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separate…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.

— Henry A. Kissinger

In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the…

— Henry A. Kissinger

China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not…

— Henry A. Kissinger

America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States…

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I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then…

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I have great respect for the Taiwanese. They have done an extraordinary job. But it was not a sustainable position to say…

— Henry A. Kissinger

China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One…

— Henry A. Kissinger

More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities…

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What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who…

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I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Everybody who has dealt with China over an extended period of time has come to more or less the same conclusions. There…

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I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around…

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I am against portraying China as the demon of the global community. China has grasped more quickly than other countries what globalization…

— Henry A. Kissinger

In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that…

— Henry A. Kissinger

China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a…

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Well it did not make excessive sense to say that 20 million people are the recognized government of a billion people that…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Every time there has been an attempt to disturb it, it led to two things. It led to immediate intense conflict with…

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Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has…

— Henry A. Kissinger

When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer…

— Henry A. Kissinger

There are some people who think that at some time in the future, China may challenge us for supremacy in the Pacific,…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I don't know what happens in the next years. But I cannot now design a policy in which we try to keep…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system…

— Henry A. Kissinger

No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I have been observing China for more than 30 years and am impressed how logically and wisely it tackles its problems. Obviously…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao.…

— Henry A. Kissinger

China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have…

— Henry A. Kissinger

What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China -…

— Henry A. Kissinger