Break Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon

“The formulation of policy toward China, as with most issues confronting the Reagan administration, became a contest between conservative ideologues ("let Reagan be Reagan")…

— Warren I. Cohen

I think that Ronald Reagan wanted to hear other people's views, and he always listened carefully, and from time to time he changed his…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton…

— Barack Obama

Reagan gave essentially the same speech from the beginning to the end of his political career, which was always, 'The American people are great,…

— H. W. Brands

Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing…

— Dave Barry

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav…

— Robert Scheer

Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism,…

— Robert Dallek

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their…

— Michael K. Simpson

The Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan seems very much in line with his rhetoric during the campaign that he intended…

— Karen Tumulty

Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth.…

— Hu Jintao