NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everybody who has dealt with China over an extended period of time has come to more or less the same conclusions. There… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every time there has been an attempt to disturb it, it led to two things. It led to immediate intense conflict with… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China -… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...]… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separate state. That… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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