Assuming Quote by Martin Van Creveld

Since the first Gulf War in 1991, the Chinese have been increasing their military budget roughly by 11 percent a year on average. There's…

— Howard W. French

U.S. officials and outside experts agree that China is undertaking a comprehensive modernization of its military. The Chinese military has gotten smaller but smarter.

— Lee H. Hamilton

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that…

— Yoshihiko Noda

Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization,

— Jiang Zemin

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

— Peter Mandelson

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries…

— Noam Chomsky

What we want, ultimately, is not a military conflict with China. And I have I'm not someone who has any interest in that. We…

— Colin Allred

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it…

— Curtis LeMay

The Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest…

— Mike Pence

Undeniably, China is a military risk. It can also be an economic risk.

— Scott Bessent