Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue their international relations with different countries.

I think what you can see is that we have worked very closely with China. China has really stood up in putting the pressure on North Korea.

Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia.

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 are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.

It is no accident that I mention our American friends, as they are always influencing our relations with our neighbors either directly or behind the scenes. Sometimes you don't even know who to talk to - the governments of certain countries or directly to their American patrons.

Burma wants to have good relations with our neighboring countries, China and India. I do believe the United States itself wants to live in harmony with China and India. That's why we have to lay down political policies that are fair for everyone.

I think in theory, the United States finds it much easier to deal with situations where there is a leading country. You can go to the leaders of that country and say, for example, to India, "There are all these problems in Bangladesh, we really have to do something about it, what do you suggest we can do to work out a common policy?" But when you don't have the equivalent of India, you have to go capital to capital trying to put together a coalition, which is extraordinarily difficult, especially in the Arab world, because of the historic rivalries and branches of Islam.

American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.

If America can have a great relationship with Russia and with China and with all countries, I'm all for that. That would be a tremendous asset.

Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies.

I think, clearly, we got to work closely with China to resolve the serious problems we have, and I worry about Putin and his military adventurism in the Crimea and the Ukraine.

The only country that can stop North Korea is China.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

I have spent time discussing the American political system and current events in Taiwan with the junior diplomats, and they have repeatedly expressed their country's desire to avoid confrontation with China.

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them.

In Ankara, your words might weigh more than that of the U.S. administration.

One is treading on very delicate ground when you have to consider the public opinion in China, Japan, the League of Geneva, and at home. It is pretty hard to avoid using a word which may arouse unintended repercussions in one or the other of those half a dozen localities

An economic version of mutual deterrence is preserving the uneasy status quo between China and Japan.

The Chinese, our allies, have been allies with North Korea.

As our relationship with China grows and matures, tensions will naturally emerge.

I do not see it as desirable for South Korea to take the back seat and watch discussions between the U.S. and China.

We've just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they're dealing with a strong American president.

America needs an adult in the White House who knows how to deal with China.

President Trump say that relations between the United States and Russia may be at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.