American Quote by William Kirby

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

— 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 the circumstance…

— Henry A. Kissinger

China's military aggression and coercion towards Taiwan is a threat to U.S. international and regional security interests in the Indo-Pacific.

— Ronny Jackson

Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.

— Annette Lu

As cross-strait tensions between China and Taiwan worsen, the United States must deter Chinese aggression by providing Taiwan with the appropriate support and defense…

— Ronny Jackson

But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.

— Fred Thompson

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

— 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 a tenth…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I think that as a Chinese person, nobody will forget that in China's history, there was a war against the Japanese.

— Jiang Wen

Ultimately, China may use force to push for unification with Taiwan, a scenario we all must work to prevent.

— Michael K. Simpson

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

— Dennis C. Blair

One of the three big factors that count against war in the relationship between China and the U.S. are, first, nuclear weapons and even…

— Graham T. Allison